Pukeiti

Family: Ericaceae (Heath)

Distribution: China (west); Myanmar (north)

IUCN Red list: Vulnerable

Life form: Shrub - evergreen

Comments: Habit: A bushy to broadly upright shrub the young growth of which is often reddish or bronzy.
Foliage: Usually lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate in shape teh aromatic leaves are 3-8cm long by 1-3cm broad. The upper surface is dark green occasionally with a bristly margin, whilst the underside is a pale glaucous or nearly white with a covering of scales.
Flowers: Trusses of widely funnel-shaped pale lavendar to pink flowers which are sometimes fragrant.
rare in cultivation.