Pot Size: 3 litre Price: £45.00 Description: Bearing broadly elliptic to ovate leaf-like cladodes (flattened stems) that are twisted at their bases, hence the inflorescence which is positioned in the middle of the upper surface, hangs below in its normal form. With arching stems to 60cm long, that grow almost horizontal to the ground. The winter born flowers have reflexed perianth segments, followed by plump red fruit on female plants if pollinated, several months later. A low growing evergreen rhizomatous sub-shrub, which has a tiny distribution in the wild, confined to the island of Madeira, where Bruno Van Puyenbroeck collected the seed at 880m near Ribeiro Frio. A rare monoecious species, best grown in shade, sheltered from hard frosts in a well drained organic soil.
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