Rhododendron hunnewellianum
Argyrophylla subsection
Epithet: after a well-known New England family.
H3
Height: 1.8-5.5m high.
Flowers: 5-7/truss, campanulate, 35-50mm long, white edged with pink, with pink spots.
Mar-May.
Leaves: oblanceolate or lanceolate, 50-175 x 12-30mm, apex acuminate, upper surface dark green, glabrous, underside with a somewhat thick, somewhat woolly, continuous or discontinuous bistrate, whitish or fawn indumentum of hairs.
Distribution: W. Sichuan. 1600 - 3500m.
Photo: Angela Brabin
Location: Dorset
Photo: Russell Beeson