Rhododendron platypodum

A half-hardy evergreen shrub, usually to about 1.5m high in cultivation, though this species can reach up to 6m in its native habitat. Leaves are thick and leathery, broadly elliptic to rounded, dark matt green with a striking yellow-green midrib, and up to 13cm long, held on short, winged stems. Flowers are produced in tall clusters at the tips of the stems, bearing 12-15 pendent, funnel-shaped soft pink flowers in mid spring