Daphniphyllum (Daphniphyllaceae) BSWJ11510

teysmannii

An invaluable evergreen shrub which is rarely seen in cultivation, that forms a medium sized to small shrub with thick leathery oblong leaves, which emerge red slowly transforming through shades of bronze over months. The flowers are born in the upper leaf axils in May followed on female plants with dark purple bloomy ellipsoidal fruit. From one of our collections from the exposed sea cliffs on the west coast of Yakushima Japan gathered in 2006. Best grown in a free draining soil in full sun to part shade sheltered from freezing winds.