Pot Size: 10 litre Price: £45.00 Description: Our second gathering of this new species to science from our collection made from dense alpine forest mixed in with impenetrable bamboo at almost 2750m altitude on Fansipan the highest mountain in northern Vietnam, with Dan Hinkley in the autumn of 2003. Where it attained a height of 1.6m, much shorter in our gardens with ovate-orbicular fleshy, but softly hairy foliage with the venation conspicuously impressed. Bearing pendant terminal slightly pubescent congested cymes of red fruit through the winter, resulting from the unusual cylindrical greenish-white flowers in July. Easily grown in sun to light shade in some shelter from freezing winds in a drained fertile soil.
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