Pot Size: 10 litre Price: £50.00 Description: Form a large well branched shrub composed of green young branches ageing dark red with thin-textured elliptic leaves to 10cm long. Bearing dark purple-green flowers on long slender pendulous peduncles, followed by unusual orbicular shallowly winged seed capsules splitting into 3 rarely 4 parts to reveal the bright red-orange aril-covered seed. From one of our seed collections gathered near Towada-Ko (lake) in the far north of Honshu, Japan in the autumn of 2005. Easily grown in any type of fertile drained soil in sun or shade, but more flowers produced in sun.
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