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R. yakushimanum

Bud Form Truss

Garden Plant

R. yakushimanum - Bud R. yakushimanum - Truss R. yakushimanum  - Plant
Hybridizer or Origination

Japan

Description

Parentage or Species meaning

from Yakushima Island, Japan

This is an extremely popular plant used in hybridizing.  The growth habit is compact and rounded and the new leaves have a white substance on them that is perfectly normal.  The leaves have brown indumentum and the bell-shaped flowers are delicately pink on the outside and around the edges of the flower while white on the outside.  The flowers will eventually fade to complete white when mature.  An extremely cold-hardy plant.
Height in 10 Years 1-4 feet
Hardiness -25°