Propagation
Sow fresh seed during spring and prepared by nicking and stratifying before sowing.
Semi hardwood cuttings taken during early summer or autumn.


Botanic information
Leaf: The leaves are elliptical to ovate with an acute-mucronate apex and are up to 50 mm (2in) wide. The petiole is short and the leaf texture is leathery with an almost glabrous upper surface and is silky pubescent on the underside.

Flower: The small tubulate flowers have a pedestal up to 5 mm (Ľ in)long and the oblong, red silky perianth segments are up to 25mm (1 in) in length by 4mm (? in) wide witha protruding red pistil to 26mm (1? in) long.

There are 5-18 flowers arranged in a slightly pendulous axillary raceme that is up to 85mm (3˝ in) long and are accompanied by linear bracts up to 3 mm (? in) long, falling before the flowers open.

The flowers appear from winter to summer and may appear sporadically throughout the year.

Fruit: The ovoid-ellipsoidal follicle is up to 7mm (Ľ in) wide with a glabrous pericarp and contains a single narrow oblong seed that is up to 14mm (? in) long with revolute margins and a waxy border along one side. The small seeds are viable but the plant is normally reproduced vegetatively to maintain true to type.