Propagation
Sow fresh seed during spring and maintain a temperature of 12ş to 15ş C. (55ş to 59ş F).

Semi hardwood cuttings taken during summer.


Botanic information
Leaf: The leathery textured leaves are elliptical to spathulate with a flattened petiole and arranged in basal rosettes or whorled on the lower stems. Both surfaces are covered densely in tomentose particularly on the underside but the variable leaves may mature glabrous.

Flower: The small yellow to white cyathiform (cup-shaped) flowers turns reddish as they mature and has 6-glabrous obovate lobes with exserted stamens. It has a slender pedestal and are arranged in a dense umbel up to 60 mm (2? in) wide that appears above the foliage on a slender stem that is up to 250 mm (9ľ in) tall and appear from mid to late summer.

Fruit: The tiny 3-angled ovoid glabrous achene is brown to black and is normally enclosed in the persistent perianth segments. The small seeds are viable but the plant is commonly reproduced vegetatively.