This Reineckea hails from Japan and has low, grassy evergreen foliage with small candles of pink-backed white flowers in June followed by little red fruits.  A nice little easy slow carpeter and very good under larger Rhododendrons or as a small-scale groundcover.

This is a collection by Wynn-Jones in 2000 from near Baoxing Sichuan who thought at the time it was an unusual form but it is well within the gradient for typical Reineckea carneat.  This is a must for the shade garden along with every other one Reineckea you can lay your hands on!  Good to zone 6 and likely 5.

A distinct smaller form with wider leaves from our collection on the summit of Jinfoshan where it was growing deep moss on top of hard limestone flanged outcrops in a miniature stone forest.  We thought this might be a new subspecies but DNA says R. carnea.  The scented pink and white flowers are much more visible in this form.

A very fine form both in habit and flowers which was collected at 2000m on Emeishan in Sichuan China.

An evergreen Lily-of-the-Valley relative, this is our collection from Yunnan, China from our 1997 trip.  This is distinctly different than the Reineckia carnea of Japan as well as other collections from China yet DNA by Aaron Floden puts it right in the species.  Scented pink flowers at the base of the leaves.