Description
RUBIACEAE
- 25 seeds per packet
A handsome, tall, evergreen tree.
With a straight trunk it is a small to large evergreen tree, 10 to 40 m tall.
With grey to grey-brown, longitudinal, rough bark ridges throughout the trunk.
Leaves usually occur in whorls of 4 and crowded at the ends of the branches, are simple, lanceolate tough leathery, glossy green, hairless, pale below, with midrib and lateral veins pale yellowish green.
Minute, yellow, pale mauve flowers
Flowering is in summer.
Should be sown in Spring when the difference between day and night temperatures is about 12°C.