Pukeiti

Family: Ericaceae (Heath)

Life form: Shrub - evergreen

Comments: Habit: Shrub to 2m.

Foliage: Lanceolate 180 x 65mm.

Flowers: 7-12 Trusses, bell-shaped, 95 x 115mm, 5-lobed, tube pale yellow, lobes pale yellow deepening to pale pink.

History: aurigeranum X leucogigas. Hybridised by J.L Rouse. Grown to first flower and named by G.L.S Snell(1984). Introduced by Vireya Venue (1990). Registered by Vireya Venue (1991).