Pot Size: 20 litre Price: £120.00 Description: A puzzling species we collected with Ben Kettle in the forests on Fansipan the highest mountain in northern Vietnam in 2007. Where it formed a small tree 7-8m tall, well branched with a broad outline, young branches red. Clothed in large oblong-elliptic acuminate thick textured leaves 20-25 x 6.5-9cm, dark green above with prominent veins impressed, glaucous white below. Held on long red petioles 3.5-5cm long, the colour extending along the mid rib of the leaves. Fruitescences short, peduncles 6cm, pedicells .7-2cm, fruit ellipsoid 1.5 x 1.2cm dark with recurved styles (no calyx). A stunning new species probably incorrectly identified by the Vietnamese. Best grown in some shelter from cold winds mixed with large shrubs (edge of woodland).
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