Propagation
Take soft tip cuttings of non-flowering shoots during spring and semi hardwood cuttings in summer.

General pruning information
Prune immediately after flowering to no more than one third of the old wood as flower buds take up to one year to develop into blooms. Remove dead or damaged wood and when cutting flowers, cut back to a node on the stem. The flowers appear on the previous season`s wood.

Botanic information
Leaf: The leaves are lanceolate to ovate and may have up to 3 lobes. The texture is leathery textured and the apex is acute apex and the petiole is up to 12mm (˝in) long. The yellowish conical buds are imbricate and are up to 6mm (Ľin) long, appearing in a cluster in the leaf axils.

Flower: The salverform flowers have 4-parted oblong petals and green sepals and a short pedicle. They are arranged in groups of 2 to 3 in the leaf axils densely along the branches on old wood and appear during early spring.

Fruit: The small woody capsule contains winged seeds that arenot commonly used. The plant is normally reproduced vegetatively.