Rhododendron recurvoides

An evergreen shrub to about 1.5m high, with narrow, lance-shaped dark green leaves, with rolled edges and a cinnamon-coloured felting on the undersides. Young shoots are covered with fine bristly hairs. Produces rounded clusters of 4-7 bell-shaped flowers, white flushed with pink and with fine, dark red speckles on the upper petals, in mid to late spring