Pot Size: 3 litre Price: £65.00 Description: An unusual new species we found in 2006, re-visiting a botanically exciting area that I discovered in 2003. That is adjacent to the Chinese border in northern Vietnam, called Y Tý at around 1850m. Growing as an epiphyte, it held glossy thick-textured leathery leaves of 7-9 ovate-elliptic leaflets 28 x 11cm long and wide and up to 5 smaller leaflets in a secondary whirl radiating above them, all with raised main venation on purple petioles to 50cm long. From late summer terminal shortly branched pyramidal panicles of greenish-yellow flowers covered in tan indumentum are held, which eventually transform to small purple berries. Hardiness untested, best grown in sun to light shade in a fertile moisture retentive soil sheltered from cold winds.
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