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An African species that is hardy in a sheltered location. The stems grow long and straggling if it doesn't get enough light. In better conditions it makes thick growth.
I don't need to add that I grow it rather badly and take terrible pictures. Plants of the World online says: "The native range of this species is Macaronesia, Tropical & S. Africa. It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome." Wikipedia says: "Its native distribution is the Macaronesia, and parts of south and east Africa. Its native distribution in the Azores was controversial up until 2005, when spores of this species were discovered in 6,000-year-old fossils on Pico. Since its introduction to Britain in 1878 it has spread slowly, and was first recorded in the wild in 1917 in west Cornwall (UK) and County Leitrim (Ireland), often as a greenhouse weed." |
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| 12th September 2006 | ||