Pot Size: 4 litre Price: £40.00 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. This 2018 seed collection was gathered from a rich valley, close to the Russian border with Abkhazia, near the Black Sea coast. Best grown in shade in a humus rich 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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