Propagation
Take soft tip cuttings of non-flowering shoots during late spring to early summer.

Botanic information
Leaf: The silvery-green leaves are lanceolate to elliptical and the margin is entire to slightly serrate. When young the leaves are covered in white pubescence and have a thick sticky texture. The leaf is sessile and the apex is acute.

Flower: The flower are bilabiate with a curled lower lip and a 4 lobed upper lip. The 4-stamens protrude from the corolla and the colour ranges from red to pink and yellow-green. The flowers appear in the leaf axils in a loose heads from late spring to early summer. 

Fruit: The 2 to 4 chambered hard and woody drupe is indehiscent, dry and sometimes splitting at the apex. There are 1 to 3 hard-coated seeds per chamber and they are difficult to germinate. The plant is normally reproduced vegetatively.