Description
Rhododendron sikangense var. sikangense (syn: cookeanum) JN#12262 A rarely grown species with a mounding habit and attractive, deep green lanceolate leaves. The flowers are typically white to pale pink with a string reddish or purple blotch and spots in mid-spring. These are grown from seed collected in the wild near the type collection originally made by Joseph Rock ? may be reinstated as a separate species, quite different in appearance to the other forms of sikangense in the collection here. Related to the familiar and somewhat similar pachysanthum and pseudochrysanthum but with less indumentum. Our first offering of this unique introduction. (-10R13) RSBG#361sd2013