Propagation
Prepare seed by removing pulp and sow in a well-drained media during spring. Keep moist and warm and germination will occur within one month. Seedlings grow rapidly and should be potted up quickly after germinating.

Botanic information
Leaf: The dark green ovate-cordate to deltoid-cordate leaves are up to 200 mm (8 in) long and wide with an accumulate apex and a shallow cordate to rounded base. The reddish tinged petiole is up to 150 mm (6 in) long and has two or more glands towards the middle. The margins are slightly crenate-serrate and the underside is glaucous.
Note:
The terminal glabrous buds are up to 8 mm (? in) tall and are dome-shaped with a reddish brown scales and the smaller lateral buds appear in a narrow notch on the top of the leaf scar.

Flower: The tree is dioecious. The yellowish green apetalous staminate (male) flowers up to 16 mm (? in) wide and have slightly toothed sepals that are up to 12 mm (˝ in) long. The pistillate (female) flowers are up to 8 mm (Ľ in) wide with a glabrous globose ovary with a short style. The fragrant flowers are arranged in pendant terminal panicles with the male up to 150 mm (6 in) long and the smaller female flowers appear in a larger panicle that is up to 200 mm (8 in) long. They appear from spring to midsummer and are pollinated by insects.

Fruit: The spherical berries up to 10 mm (? in) in diameter and ripened to dark purplish red. They are arranged densely in a pendant panicle that is up to 200 mm (8 in) long and appear during autumn then persist on the tree until spring. It berry contains several tiny brown seeds that are up to 3 mm (? in) in diameter. It is necessary to have both male and female trees in order to produce fruit.