Propagation
Take hardwood cuttings during late autumn and placed in a well drained moist media.


Botanic information
Leaf: The leaves are broad ovate to rhomboidal with a truncate base and an acuminate apex. The petiole is slender and flattened up to 60mm (2Ľin) long and the leaf is glabrous and pale green on the underside,turning golden colour in autumn.

Flower: The flowers are dioecious, solitary inserted on the disk and accompanied by a bract. The reddish male flowers have up to 20-stamens and the greenish female has a single pistil, in a pendulous catkin up to 70mm (2˝in) long appear with new foliage.

Fruit: The dehiscent capsule has 2-valves and contains brown seeds that are covered in cotton-like hairs. The fruit is not commonly seen and the plant is normally reproduced vegetatively.
var. Italica is a male clone and is only propagated by cuttings.