General Description | A native shrub suitable for quick screening and naturalizing. Used as a specimen in contained areas. |
ID Characteristic | Bright green foliage, crimson fruit clusters, wide spreading and its branches are covered in dense velvet hair. |
Shape | Wide and spreading. |
Landscape | Naturalizing, massing, waste areas, perhaps banks, cuts and fills. It is hard to kill this plant due to its ability to sucker freely from the roots. |
Propagation | Seed, scarify for 50-80 minutes in sulfuric acid. Root cuttings collected in the autumn and cut into 50 mm lengths and insert vertically into pots or flats barley covering the top. Water and place in a cold frame until growth appears and then pot individually. |
Flower/Leaf Bud Description | Hairy, leaf scars are 'C'-shaped. |
Leaf Description | Compound pinnate, alternate and contains 13-27 leaflets. Bright green above, glaucous beneath. |
Flower Description | Dioecious, females borne in dense, hairy panicles and male in a bigger, looser, wider panicle. Greenish-yellow in colour. |
Fruit Description | Densely hairy drupe, closely packed with in a pyramidal panicle. Bright crimson in early autumn, becoming duller and darker red with cold weather and often still colourful even into the spring. |
Colour Description | Bright green in summer, yellow, orange and scarlet in autumn. Flowers are greenish-yellow and fruit is scarlet red. |
Texture Description | Medium in summer and coarse in the winter. |