Pukeiti

Family: Ericaceae (Heath)

Distribution: Japan

IUCN Red list: Least concern

Life form: Shrub - evergreen

Comments: Habit: Compact rounded shrub to 2.5m.
Foliage: 6-21 x 3cm, elliptic or linear-lanceolate, usually recurved. Thin indumentum on upper surface persisting for several months, lower surface has a thick, white to tawny, woolly indumentum.
Flowers: 5-10 flowers per umbel, pink, spotted or unspotted, larger than true R. yakushimanum.
Further information: Garden raised seedling of R. yakushimanum which may be a hybrid.