Propagation
Sow fresh seeds during spring in containers.
Take semi hardwood cuttings during early summer.
Layering of suckers or stems during the growing period.

Note:
Care should be taken when selecting a site as the tree has vigorous surface roots that sucker and can lift concrete or block drains.

The large leaves can be used as dinner plates or for wrapping up materials in packaging and the flowers have a pleasant  fragrance that persists when cut and is used as an insect repellent.

Botanic information
Leaf: The leathery textured palmately lobed leaves have a ovate to orbicular outline with a cordate base and the petiole is covered in rusty pubescence. The underside is silvery white or covered in rusty tomentose and the apex is truncate to acute. The entire margins become lobed or serrated towards the apex the leaves are up to 280mm (11 in) wide.

Flower: The very fragrant funnelform flowers have 5-sepals that are covered in rusty tomentose and are up to 150 mm (6 in) long. The 5-creamy white petals are spreading and slightly shorter that the sepals and the flowers appear in a cyme during late spring.  

Fruit: The dehiscent woody capsule has 5-cells and contains numerous flat seeds with an apical wing. The capsules may take up to 12 months to mature and appear in the dense pendant cluster. The small seeds are viable but the plant may be reproduced vegetative.