Pot Size: 20 litre Price: £75.00 Description: Considered to be an outstanding small evergreen shrub allied to magnolias and requiring similar conditions to rhododendrons, although more tolerant of lime. From seed I collected on Longzhoushan Sichuan China, off small pyramidically shaped shrubs to 2m tall with a dense habit bearing dull green 10cm elliptic leathery leaves with purple mid-ribs and many star-shaped seed capsules which had succeeded the pale-yellow cup-shaped flowers. Best grown cool in part-shade in an acidic drained soil. Open ground plants containerised in the autumn available at the moment 25lt size.
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