Pukeiti

Family: Ericaceae (Heath)

Distribution: China (central, southern and eastern); Japan

IUCN Red list: Least concern

Comments: Habit: Compact slow growing spreading shrub to 1.8m.
Foliage: Broad elliptic leaves, smooth, semi glossy and leathery.
Flowers: Single but clustered at shoot tips, pale pink with darker spots on upper lobe, short tube, wide spreading lobes, 10 stamens. A.M. form very slow and shy to flower.
History: Formally also called R. wilsonae Hems. & Wilson and A.M. award given under that name at Savill Gardens, Windsor.