Pot Size: 1.5 litre Price: £40.00 Description: From a very problematic area, this 2019 seed collection was gathered from a watery valley, inland from the Black Sea coast, at Chernigovka in Abkhazia. Growing in rich forested boulder strewn area, where two species of Ruscus intermingled. 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 inflorescence 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. Only described to science, by Peter Yeo of Cambridge University in 1966. Easily grown in light to dark shade in a humus rich drained soil.
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