Propagation
Sow fresh seed during spring and maintain a temperature of 16ş to 18ş C. (61ş to 64ş F).

Soft tip cuttings of non-flowering shoots during spring and semi hardwood cuttings taken during summer.

Note:
Contact with the leaves may cause skin or eye irritation.


Botanic information
Leaf: The leaves are palmately to pinnately lobed with 3-5 to 7-lobes and has 1-3 veins from the base. The texture is leathery and the underside is covered densely in tawny tomentose. The pubescent petiole is long and the leaves commonly appear on shorts spurs.

Flower: The petal-less bisexual crateriuform flowers have 5-spreading rounded sepals that may be reddish along the margins and thick exserted filaments. The flowers appear on a short spur from late spring to early autumn.

Fruit: The bristly ovoid capsule has 4-5 valves with 4-5 chambers each containing 2-3 seeds. The seeds are generally germinated after fire but the plant may be reproduced vegetatively.