Propagation
Surface sow fresh seed during spring and prick out when large enough to handle. Seedlings commonly are not true to type.

Division of established clumps or divide rhizomes with one or more rosette of leaves during autumn or after flowering. Place cuttings in a sand and peat mixture and keep moist, not wet.


Botanic information
Leaf: The glabrous obovate leathery leaves have a sheath-less petiole up to 18 mm (? in) long and a cuneate to rounded base. The upper surface is mid to dark green with an obtuse apex and a ciliate-serrated margin and the underside is pale green. During autumn leaves turn deep red and maybe deciduous in cold regions.

Flower: The white turning pink funnelform flowers have 5-green pubescent leathery ovate sepals and 5-expending broad-ovate petals with an obtuse apex. They have a short pubescent pedicle and are arranged in an upright panicle-like branched cyme that is up to 80 mm (3? in) long and it is held above the foliage on a thick reddish scape that is up to 200mm (7ľ in) tall. They appear from early to mid spring.

Fruit: The small capsule is 2- parted and up to 6 mm (Ľ in) wide and contains numerous seeds that are viable but the plant is commonly reproduced vegetatively to maintain true to type.