Pot Size: 1 litre Price: £30.00 Description: A dense thicket-forming evergreen rhizomatous sub-shrub, in its normal form, 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. One of the last species of this incredibly useful genus to be described to science, by Peter Yeo of Cambridge University in 1966. This 2019 seed collection was gathered from a rich valley, close to the Russian Black Sea coast, at Vodopad, at the upper parts of a wide valley running down to the coast. Best grown in shade in a humus rich soil.
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