Sorry this plant is not available at the moment. Please try again later or select an alternative plant. Description: An evergreen shrub with few arching branches to 1.5m tall in the wild, with long narrow willowy foliage 10 x 1.5cm, which must be mature foliage as the juvenile is still more elliptic with us. They bore pink shortly winged 4-merous fruit which were splitting open to reveal the orange aril-covered seed within, the result of the red-purple flowers held in abundance May-June for us. From one of my collections on the trail at 2900m, up to Fansi Pu the second highest peak on the Hoang Lien Range in northern Vietnam in the autumn of 2007. Best grown in a fertile soil with some moisture retention in sun or shade.
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