Propagation
Sow seed from spring to summer and autumn.

Take semi hardwood cuttings during winter.  Graft using top cleft or whip and tongue methods during late winter on one year old seedling understocks. 

Culture
Remove damaged or dead wood back to the collar and lightly prune after fruiting. 

Botanic information
Leaf: The leaves are linear to lanceolate with silvery underside and the margins may be slightly recurved. subsp. cuspidata leaves are dark green on the upper surface and pale green on the underside with a hooked apex. In both forms the apex and base taper evenly to a point. 

Flower: The creamy white rotate flower have 4-petals and up to 60 flowers are arranged in a terminal panicle that appears from late winter to spring.

Fruit: The green single seeded drupe is up to 20 mm (¾ in) wide maturing to purple-black from autumn to winter. It is dispersed by birds or by gravity. The seeds are viable but the plant may be reproduced vegetatively.