Pot Size: 4 litre Price: £50.00 Description: A rather uncommon evergreen shrub, from sparse mountainous woodlands in limestone regions of southern China, where the leaves are used to make a tea, something we are not able to confirm to be safe yet. Forming shrubs up to 6m tall eventually, clothed in opposite dark green glossy ovate-lanceolate leaves to 13cm long, on short petioles 3-10mm long. Bearing axillary solitary flowers, consisting of 20-24 variously shaped (rounded to lanceolate) tepals to 15mm long, mid to pale yellow, October to January in the wild. Our seed originating from the Lucca Botanic Gardens, where we were given a free rein pre-Brexit. Best planted in full sun to light shade in a freely drained soil with some capacity to hold moisture.
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