Not the very best picture.... but the only available now to show a mature plant in her full Spring flush.
Photo taken by Alessandra Murru in Barisardo, Ogliastra - Sardinia, late April 2006.
This plant is 10 years old, and come from a cutting - the mother plant is thought to be more than 30 years old by the owners, maybe more. A plant of anoter Tea - probably 'Duchesse de Brabant' - have been found on the same garden.
Figured as Souv. d'Elise in The Florist, Fruitist, and Garden Miscellany (1856) in plate 117 after p. 256. Digitized thanks to Google.com and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
