Propagation
Stratify seeds for 3 to 5 months and sow seeds in pots and place in a cold frame to establish.


Botanic information
Leaf: The leaves are up to 100mm (4in) wide with an obliquely cordate to truncate base and a slender petiole up to 50mm (2in) long. The upper surface is glabrous and the bright green underside has axillary tufts of brown hair. The margin is sharply serrate and the apex is abruptly acuminate.

The stems and the ovate-shaped buds are red-maroon up to 10mm (?in) long and have 2-scales. There is no terminal bud.

Flower: The pale-yellow cyathiform flowers have 5-sepals and petals and there are up to 10 arranged in a drooping axillary cyme. It has a long peduncle that is fused to the upper surface of a narrow-elliptical, membranous pale yellow bract that is 150mm (6in) long and appear during early summer.

Fruit: The pubescent hard-shelled oval shaped nut-like capsule has 5-faint ribs is arranged in clusters on a long peduncle that is attached to a broad membranaceus bract. This helps with wind dispersal of the seed.


General pruning information
Tolerates pruning to maintain a smaller size for street planting during summer allowing the wounds to heal. As a tree, train to a single leader and remove dead or damaged branches back to the collar.