Pot Size: 2 litre (deep) Price: £15.00 Description: Unknown before our introduction into cultivation, an evergreen species which retains its alternate thick-textured slender foliage in milder climates like our own. With strikingly bright purple arching stems which are even brighter when the red fruit are still attached as they can be for months on this species we collected seed of on our ascent to the summit of Fan Si Pan Vietnam's highest mountain (and probably steepest). The fruit are the result of the purple-red small flowers held in clusters in all the leaf axils, even the terminal, which may class this species as a Heteropolygonatum. Best grown in a shaded position in a moist but well drained
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