Pot Size: 5 litre Price: £50.00 Description: Evergreen scandent shrubs, eventually 2-3 m tall/long, with sturdy brown grooved branches and twigs. With ovate-elliptic leathery partly crenulate leaves 7-10 × 3-6 cm, tapering to 12 mm long petioles. Bearing 4-merous yellowish flowers only 6-7 mm across April-May, on long many branched slender stalks. Which eventually transform by July-September to conspicuous prickly globular pink fruit covered in long spines, eventually splitting to reveal the orange aril-covered seed. Best grown in a fertile drained soil which has some moisture retention, in sun or part shade. Originally identified as E. aculeatus, but revised by Jack Aldridge to the current.
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