Propagation
Sow fresh seeds during late winter to early spring in containers and place a cold frame to germinate.  
Basal cuttings taken during spring.
May be difficult to transplant when large as roots disliked disturbance.

Note
Contact with the milky sap may cause skin irritation, wear gloves when handling.

Botanic information
Leaf: The almost sessile ovate leaves are thick and leathery and densely covered in white pubescent. They have an undulating margin with an acuminate apex and they cordate base. During excessive dry periods they are stress-deciduous.

Flower: The rotate flowers have a densely pubescent pedestal with 5-sepals and 5-reflexed deep mauve ovate petals. The 5-ascending purplish hood-shaped lobes extend to the flattened pistil head. They are arranged in a weeping terminal umbel-like cyme that is up to 150 mm (6in) wide and appears above the foliage on a long reddish, pubescent scape during summer.

Note
The hermaphrodite flowers are pollinated by bees, insects and butterflies (Lepidoptera). The flowers have 5-stamens and the pistil has a superior ovary and in bud the flower head is covered densely in matted silky hairs.

Fruit: The erect narrow ovoid follicles are normally arranged pairs and contain numerous small flat seeds with tufts of silky hair. The small seeds are viable but the plant may be reproduced vegetatively.