Propagation
Fresh or dried seeds should be soaked in boiling water for 10-20 seconds or exposed to heat by burning straw above them and then stratified for two months at 5ş C (41ş F).
Sow seeds in flats and when germination occurs within 2-3 months prick out when large enough to handle and place in a cold frame.

Heeled semi-hardwood cuttings up to 80 mm (3?


Botanic information
Leaf: The leathery ovate to broad elliptical leaves are up to 35 mm (1? in) wide with an obtuse to acute-mucronate apex and a reddish petiole up to 12 mm (˝ in) long with a cuneate base. The upper surface is covered in tiny silvery hairs when young and the pale green underside is glabrous.

Flower: The tiny pink to white urceolate flowers have 5-sepals and petals that are fused to form an urn-shape that spreads at the apex and normally contain 10-stamens. The deep pink glabrous pedestal is up to 8 mm (? in)long and the pendant flowers are arranged in a terminal panicle with 3-7 branches that is accompanied by scale-like bracts that are up to 4 mm (? in) long. They appear from late winter to early spring.

Fruit: The smooth depressed globose berry-like drupe is white maturing to red and may be pubescent or glabrous. The small seeds are viable but the plant may be reproduced vegetatively.