Pukeiti

Family: Ericaceae (Heath)

Life form: Shrub - evergreen

Comments: Habit: Shrub 1.5 x 1.2m in 10 years.

Foliage: leaves narrowly elliptic, 145 x 55mm, dark bluish green above, hairless.

Flowers: up to 13 per ball/truss, open funnel­shaped, 125mm wide, with 6-7 wavy-edged lobes, light purplish pink with moderate purplish red spotting on dorsal lobe, edges and outside strong purplish red. Midseason flowering.

History: R. 'Loderi Venus' X R. 'Anna'. Hybridised by Mrs H.P. Beck in 1960. Grown to first flower by Flora Markeeta Nursery, introduced and registered by A.C. Korth in 1977.