Pukeiti
Pukeiti
Pukeiti
Plant Hunter’s Station
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Taxon
Rhododendron 'Beverley McConnell' (Vireya)
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Family:
Ericaceae (Heath)
Life form:
Shrub - evergreen
Comments:
Habit: Shrub to 2x2m.
Foliage: Leaves ovate, leathery and showing konori influence in scaling and texture.
Flowers: Umbel of 10-12 large funnel shaped flowers, cream in bud opening peach pink to biscuit shading depending on season and temperature. Tube tends to be paler. Sweetly scented of carnations. 7 lobed corolla.
History: R. Gilded Sunrise x R. konori. Bred at Pukeiti by Graham Smith. First flowered in 1999, registered in 2019. Rare in cultivation.
Locations
1:
Kokopu (west side) V7
(T3/V7)
• Accession: T3/2012-0063/B
2:
• Accession: T3/2016-0210 • Provenance: Garden
3:
• Accession: T3/2017-0375 • Provenance: Garden
4:
• Accession: T3/2012-0063
Area
Individual