Pot Size: 2 litre Price: £45.00 Description: One of the first places we encountered this new species to us, growing in rich a forested area in north-eastern Turkey near Camlihemsin. Forming a dense thicket of evergreen rhizomatous sub-shrubs with only slightly arching stems to 60cm tall. Bearing broadly to narrowly ovate or elliptic leaf-like cladodes (flattened stems), which carry the inflorescences below on the central vein subtended by a tiny bract. The small intriguing winter born flowers are followed by plump red fruit on female plants if pollinated. Easily grown in light to dark shade in a humus rich drained soil. One of the last species of this incredibly useful genus to be described to science, by Peter Yeo of Cambridge University in 1966.
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