Propagation
Separate seeds from pulp and sown in autumn in a moist medium and maintain a temperature of 5ş C (41ş F) for 3-months.

Softwood cuttings taken from summer to autumn and place on a misting bench until roots appear with in 6 to 8 weeks. Avoid excessive moisture for both cuttings and seeds.


Botanic information
Leaf: The sessile leathery textured leaves are obovate to lanceolate with entire-revolute margins and has a spiny acute apex. The leaves may also form spiny tipped lobes and commonly 3-leaves are arranged in the stem axils.

Flower: The nodding cyathiform flowers have 6-petal-like sepals and 6- petals arranged in alternating whorls of three with 6-stamens and the ovary contains a single cell.

They are arranged in fascicles in the leaf axils on a long slender pedicle and appear during spring. The flowers may reappear in autumn and the flowers are the brightest coloured in the genus.

Fruit: The small ellipsoid berry appears in clusters. The small seeds are viable but the plant is commonly reproduced vegetatively.