Lapageria rosea 'Flesh Pink'

Exacting in its requirements, needs cool moist acid soil in shade, absolutely hates direct sun for any length of time. The flowers in this cultivar are a beautiful shade of shell pink and show up well against the dark leathery evergreen leaves, they are large and waxy. In flower from July through to March. Due to its flowering period and the fact that new growth can be frost damaged it needs a sheltered place (min -8c), or grow it down the shady end of the conservatory as I do.
The species comes from Chile where its both endangered and the national flower. It was introduced around 1847. The seedling which became Lapageria 'Flesh Pink' was in a tray of seedlings given to Rennie Moffat of Penheale in Cornwall by E. B. Anderson. Who had in turn had got the seed from Magellan in Chile where it had been wild collected from a white plant. Rennie named this and Lapageria 'Beatrix Anderson' (a spotted red variety from wild collected red plant) . unfortunately there is also a Chilean cultivar called Flesh Pink (but this is a quite different plant)

This is a very free flowering pink, a good grower although some people report it as having "Flowered itself to death"