Pukeiti

Family: Ericaceae (Heath)

Life form: Shrub - evergreen

Comments: Habit: Shrub 0.3 x 0.45m in 3 years.

Foliage: elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 127 x 44lmm, convex, rounded at base, glossy above, with a felted indumentum below.

Flowers: 8-10 per domed truss, 51 x 64mm, with 6 wavy-edged lobes, deep purplish pink in bud, opening light purplish
pink and fading to white, with yellow-brown spots in the throat.

History: R. bureavii X yakushimanum. Grown to first flower by Briggs Nursery 1980 and registered in 1991.