Propagation
Fresh or dried seeds should be soaked in boiling water for 10-20 seconds or exposed to heat by burning straw above them and then stratified for two months at 5ş C (41ş F).

Sow seeds in flats and when germination occurs within 2-3 months prick out when large enough to handle and place in a cold frame.

Take heeled semi-hardwood cuttings up to 80 mm (3?) long.


Botanic information
Leaf: The leaves are elliptical to ovate up to 25 mm (1 in) wide with a cuneate base that may be lobed. The margins are entire to serrate and the surfaces is scabrous or smooth and can be covered in a fine tomentose. The leaf colour varies from bright green to grey-glaucous green and may be glossy or dull.

Flower: The tiny white to pink urceolate flowers have 5-sepals and petals that are fused to form an urn-shape that spreads at the apex and normally contain 10-stamens. The sparsely pubescent pedestal is up to 10 mm (? in)long and the pendant flowers are arranged in a panicle with 3-10 branches and are accompanied by scale-like to leaf-like lanceolate bracts up to 10 mm (? in) long and the flowers appear from winter to early spring.

Fruit: The fleshy depressed globose drupe is red and sticky with glandular pubescence and are persistent on the plant throughout winter. The small seeds of viable but the plant may be reproduced vegetatively.