Propagation
Sow fresh seed during spring or autumn in pots.
Cuttings of non-flowering shoots during late spring to early summer.


Botanic information
Leaf: This variable leaves are ovate to elliptical with an obtuse to acute apex and a rounded base. The tiny petiole is up to 6mm (Ľin) long and the glossy upper surface is covered in oil glands, the lower is pale dull green. When crushed the leaves are aromatic.

Flower: The crateriform flowers have 4-small sepals and 4-spreading rounded white petals with a central cluster of creamy-white stamens with yellow anthers. They have a long pedicle and appear solitary or in small clusters along the stems or terminally from late spring to early summer.

Fruit: The globose to slightly flattened succulent berry has the persistent calyx lobes at the apex and contains a single seed that is viable but the plant may be reproduced vegetatively.The editable red fruit is tasty.