Pot Size: 3 litre Price: £35.00 Description: An unusual evergreen shrub, capable of growing to a small tree in the wild, more restrained in cultivation. Bearing leathery oblong dark green glossy leaves to 22cm long, resembling a Daphniphyllum. With large terminal and axillary rounded panicles of small scented flowers in May-June followed by globose capsules which split open to reveal the red fruit. From our seed collection made in a very fertile area of North Taiwan at an altitude of about 2000m in 2003 with Dick Hayward. Full sun and shelter from icy winds in a well drained soil.
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