Hollard Gardens

Family: Ericaceae (Heath)

Distribution: Bhutan, China (Sichuan, Xizang (Tibet), Yunnan), India, Myanmar

IUCN Red list: Least concern

Life form: Shrub - evergreen

Comments: Habit: An attractive shrub to 3m.
Foliage: Handsome green leaves which are strongly wrinkled in appearance. woolly indumentum on the underside is white when young but matures to a fawny rust colour.
Flowers: Fragrant flowers are white flushed pink and can be variable in both size and intensity of colour.
Additional notes: Commonly found growing epiphytically inthe wild on rocks and logs this species is a great plant for pot culutre or planting on old stumps in the garden.

History: Named R. bullatum by Delavay and his collections were the first cultivated. However Hooker had named it R. edgeworthii 38 years before and it was later realised they were the same species so R. edgeworthii is the correct name.