Pukeiti

Family: Ericaceae (Heath)

Comments: Habit: Compact upright shrub to 1.8m.

Foliage: Broad elliptic rugose leaves, scaly below.
Flowers: Fragrant butter yellow trumpets with dark brown anthers, flat umbel of 3-6 flowers, fleshy petals and recurved lobes. Like a small yellow version of R. nuttallii. November.
Bark: Peeling brown bark.
History: Bred by Mark Jury and released from his nursery in Waitara, NZ in 1997.