Propagation
Stratified seeds for 3-months at 5ş C (41şF) in a moist media and place in a cold frame. Prick out when large to handle into pots and plant out the following year. (Protected during first winter as the seedlings are slow to grow)

Transplanted from balled and burlapped.

Softwood cuttings taken during early summer and place in a protected environment until roots appear. (Cuttings may be difficult to strike)


Botanic information
Leaf: The leaves are ovate to obovate up to 50 mm (2in) wide with a shallow forward pointing lobed-serrated margins and are glossy green above and densely white-greyish tomentose below. The apex is obtuse and the petiole is short. During autumn the leaves turn dull grey-brown before falling.

Flower: The showy campanuleate flowers have triangular to ovate sepals with an acute apex and oblong-ovate white petals up to 7 mm (Ľ in) long with an obtuse apex and contains around 20-yellowish white stamens. They are arranged in a terminal compound corymb that is up to 100 mm (4 in) in diameter and appear during late spring.

Fruit: The globose fleshy pome is up to 10 mm (? in) wide and is red or scarlet and may have a few minute light lenticels. It contains linear-oblong brownish orange seeds and the fruit is persistent on the plant after the leaves have fallen. The small seeds are viable but the plant may be reproduced vegetatively.