Pot Size: 3 litre Price: £35.00 Description: From one of my seed collections gathered in the mountain forests north of Baoxing in 2000, at around 1950m. Forming graceful deciduous shrubs, 1.7 m tall, composed of moderately sturdy branches and twigs. With lanceolate thinly leathery serrated bamboo-like leaves 8-12 cm long, but only around 2 cm wide on short petioles. Bearing conspicuous 5-merous reddish flowers on long slender stalks (peduncles) in pendulous many flowered cymes in June for us. Followed by curious propeller-like pink fruit which eventually burst open to expose the orange aril covered pendant seed from autumn to early winter. Easily grown in either sun or part shade in most types of reasonably fertile drained soils.
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