Propagation
Take soft tip or semi hardwood cuttings with aerial roots during the growing period.

Culture
This plant tolerates pruning through out the growing season to contain or shape. The adult foliage is commonly removed as the juvenile foliage is preferred. The rootlets can damage brick mortar especially when being removed. This plant can live up to 500 years and become massive.
Yellowing of lower foliage may be the result of poor circulation and nutrient redistribution in cold weather.

Yellowing of foliage is also attributed to a lack of magnesium or iron but often too much is applied resulting in an imbalance with harmful side affects in the soil.

It is therefore better to apply complete fertiliser in a soluble form during late winter to autumn.
This plant has a medium growth rate and may attain 50cm (2ft) per season.

Botanic information
Leaf: The juvenile leaves are broad-ovate with 3 to 5 triangular lobes, and are up to 100mm (4in) long and wide with a cordate base. The apex is acute; petiole is long and the leaves are arranged densely along the stems. The larger broad ovate adult leaves normally have no lobes and the base cuneate.

Flower: The small 5-tepaled flowers are inconspicuous and appearing on adult growth normally in the 8th to 10th year on a branched flower stem and are arranged in a terminal umbel that appears during late summer.

Fruit: The blue-black berry-like fruit are produced on adult foliage and ripen the following year. They have a bitter taste and are poisonous. The small seeds are viable but the plant is commonly reproduced vegetatively to maintain true to type.