Pukeiti

Family: Ericaceae (Heath)

Comments: Habit: Medium compact shrub, open with age, 2 x 1.8m.
Foliage: Large ovate leaves, dark green with dense brown scales when new, becoming less with age and leaving a rough greyish appearance. Leaves thick and semi-rigid.
Flowers: 4-8 tubular funnels per umbel, blush in bud opening cream and paling to white. Strongly carnation scented. Usually flowers twice a year.
History: Raised by Felix Jury from USA seed. Seedlings were given different names but this creamy white one remained unnamed until given to and commercially propagated by David Brown, Tauranga, when he left Pukeiti to start his own nursery. Named by David and Pauline Brown.