Pukeiti

Family: Ericaceae (Heath)

Distribution: Indonesia (Sulawesi, Celebes Is)

IUCN Red list: Least concern

Comments: Habit: Small epiphytic shrub to 1.5m.
Foliage: Narrow elliptic leaves, slightly rugose and scaly below.
Flowers: Pink or red, tubular with small spreading lobes, laxly scaly outside. Repeat irregular flowering.
History: Introduced to cultivation in mid 1800s by Thomas Lobb for Veitch Nursery, London but then lost and not reintroduced until 1997.