Pileostegia (Hydrangeaceae) BSWJ3570

viburnoides

This collection represents our gathering from the Taipingshan area of northern Taiwan in the autumn of 1996. Slowly attaining 6 m in cultivation, a magnificent if not underused evergreen woody-stemmed aerial-rooting climber, which is inexplicably rarely seen in cultivation. Clothed in densely set long narrow oblong thick-textured and leathery glossy to dull green leaves, which provide the perfect foil for the elongating panicles of small creamy white flowers borne from May-July then sporadically until October. Best grown in sheltered conditions away from freezing winds, flowering best with the top in sun while the base is kept moist and shaded.