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Upright but compact-growing evergreen shrubs with beautiful smooth and peeling, deep red-brown bark. The rather stiff and thick foliage is quite attractive, glossy green on the upper surface with golden scales on the lower. The flowers (late winter indoors, early spring outdoors) are bright to deep yellow and bell-shaped with flaring lobes. It is a very distinct and, in my opinion, a rather stunning species. Native to W Yunnan, China and adjacent N Myanmar where it grows as an epiphyte or in other exceptionally well-drained areas such as on rocks and cliffs. These are grown from a hand-pollination using plants resulting from the only re-collection of this very rare species since it was originally collected by Kingdon Ward in the “Triangle” of N Myanmar in 1953.
A newly introduced dwarf species with small bell-shaped rose-purple flowers in the autumn, very distinctive small and very dark gray-green elliptic leaves and a very dwarf and compact, but “tree-like” habit. Native to the eastern Himalaya, this is basically the western “purple” flowered form of the yellow-flowered monanthum from the Yunnan/Myanmar frontier although they are easily distinguished visually. An epiphyte in the wild, this requires excellent drainage, great in a moss-lined hanging basket. This is a very rare taxon in cultivation which has been introduced from the wild only this one time (2005).
Over-the-top ornamental evergreen shrubs with smooth and peeling bark. The distinctive foliage is extremely attractive with a heavily puckered (bullate) texture above and a thick tawny indumentum below. The large and fragrant white to white flushed pink flowers appear in mid-spring. Requires sharp drainage. Great in a container or on an old stump or log. From seed collected in the wild in the Sino-Himalaya.
Over-the-top ornamental evergreen shrubs with smooth and peeling bark. The distinctive foliage is extremely attractive with a heavily puckered (bullate) texture above and a thick tawny indumentum below. The large and fragrant white to white flushed pink flowers appear in mid-spring. Requires sharp drainage. Great in a container or on an old stump or log. The hairs on the leaves on plants from this end (eastern) of the range of the species have a golden hue. From seed collected in the wild in the Sino-Himalaya.
Over-the-top ornamental evergreen shrubs with smooth and peeling bark. The distinctive foliage is extremely attractive with a heavily puckered (bullate) texture above and a thick tawny indumentum below. The large and fragrant white to white flushed pink flowers appear in mid-spring. Requires sharp drainage. Great in a container or on an old stump or log. The hairs on the leaves on plants from this end (western) of the range of the species have a silvery hue. From seed collected in the wild in the Sino-Himalaya. Large plants this year.
Plants grown from this collection are what I am assuming (hoping) will be the hardiest form of this generally tender species. These are grown from a collection made at a very high elevation on the tallest mountain in N Vietnam where it grew with several other reliably hardy (in the Pac NW anyway) species. This forms an open-growing evergreen shrub with smooth and shiny peeling bark. The distinctive glossy leaves are extremely attractive with a heavily puckered (bullate) texture above and a thick tawny-orange indumentum below. The large and fragrant, typically white flushed deep rose flowers appear in mid-spring. Requires sharp drainage and great in a container. The foliage on this form is stunningly beautiful. Excellent on an old stump or log.
A Maddenia closely related to nuttallii but typically with narrower foliage that is more strongly glaucous-white beneath. Very large and fragrant white flowers with a strong yellow-orange blotch in mid-spring to early summer (depending upon the provenance). Smooth and peeling bark. One of the hardiest of the larger-flowered maddenias - has survived outdoors in the ground for many years at the RSBG. Requires excellent drainage. Grown from wild collected seed. This is the more “typical” form (if such a thing can be said about this enigmatic species) with very large leaves and blooming in early summer.
A Maddenia closely related to nuttallii but typically with narrower foliage that is more strongly glaucous-white beneath. Very large and fragrant white flowers with a strong yellow-orange blotch in mid-spring to early summer (depending upon the provenance). Smooth and peeling bark. One of the hardiest of the larger-flowered maddenias - has survived outdoors in the ground for many years at the RSBG. Requires excellent drainage. Grown from wild collected seed. This is the more “typical” form (if such a thing can be said about this enigmatic species) with very large leaves and blooming in early summer.
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