An ornamental foliage shrub to 1m well suited for a massed display or an individual specimen. The foliage is a rich red purple evergreen with showy strap like flowers 2cm long. It performs best in moist well drained soils and will need mulch and irrigation through hot dry periods.
- Type
- Exotic
- Maintenance
- Medium
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Container
- Zero
- Size
- Small shrubs 0.5 - 3 metres
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Zones
- Moist tropical
- Soils
- Loam
- Tolerances
- Frost
- Regions
- Darwin Living Water Smart
- Shade levels
- Full sun, Sun/shade
- Flowering seasons
- Spring, Winter
- Attribution
- Darrell Barrell
- Licence
- Public Doman Wikimedia Commons