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 textured leaves are ovate to oblong ovate up to 25 mm (1 in) wide with a truncated base and a very short petiole up to 4 mm (? in) long. The upper surface is a shiny dark green and the underside is pale green with both surfaces covered in find pubescence when young with ciliate margins. They are arranged alternately and overlapping towards the end of the pubescent branchlets.

Flower: The tiny white urceolate flowers have 5-sepals and petals that are fused to form an urn-shape that spreads at the apex and normally contains 10-stamens. The pedestal is up to 3 mm long and sparsely pubescent pendant flowers are arranged in a raceme that is accompanied by leaf-like lanceolate bracts that are up to 10 mm (? in)long with an acute apex. The flowers appear from late winter to early spring.

Note
The white hairy ovary is superior and is surrounded at the base with a nectar disk and contains 2-10 chambers and the flowers are pollinated by insects.

Fruit: The sub globose light brown fleshy drupe is sparsely pubescent and contains 2-10 stones that a free or strongly fused. It ripens from summer to autumn and the seeds may be difficult to germinate but the plant may be reproduced vegetatively.