Kalmia latifolia 'Bumblebee'

Parentage
• Female: f1 seedling. Probably Peppermint X wild star-ring plant
• Male: f1 seedling

Origin
• crossing

Hybridizer
• Jon Weirether
• named by Jon Weirether
• named after The marking inside the flower looks like a big bumblebee

Habit
• upright

Flower
• Colour: off white inside and outside with a deep burgundy red enhanced star-rings with pronounced radiating spokes
• Shape: bowl shaped
• Size: over 1.0 in

Bud
• light pink

Shoot
• light green

Propagation
• grafting

Year of
• Crossing: ca. 1995
• Naming: 2012
• Introduction: 2012
• Registration: 2012

Comments
• The star-ring is visible from a considerable distance from the plant