Propagation
Sow fresh seed during spring and maintain a temperature of 19ş to 24ş C. (66ş to 77ş F) in flats and transplanted when they reach 100mm (4in) tall.

Air layering is carried out during the growing period.

Take soft tip cuttings of non-flowering shoots during the growing period taking and it may take up to 2 months to form roots.
Graft cultivars onto an ordinary rootstock.

Culture
This plant produces fruit on the current seasons growth so take care to trim past the seasons growth to encourage new growth. If the plant is trimmed regularly to form a hedge or screen it may not produce flowers or fruit.


Botanic information
Leaf: The stiff leathery textured leaves are oblong to oval with white tomentum and conspicuously veined on the underside. It has an obtuse apex and the pubescent petiole is up to 6mm (Ľin) long.
Buds sit directly above the leaf scar and are small and covered in a silver-grey pubescence.

Flower: The crateriform flowers have greenish reflexed sepals and 4-fleshy petals and are whitish tomentose on the underside and crimson within. The long exserted filaments are scarlet with pale yellow anthers. They appear solitary or in opposite pairs in the leaf axils and from spring to early summer.

Fruit: The fleshy fruit is 40mm (1? in) wide ripening in early winter and cultivars may be larger. The taste is likened to pineapple. The seeds are viable but the plant may be reproduced vegetatively in order to maintain true to type.