Flower Notes:
White (Creamy white flowers, fragrant)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Lustrous, glossy dark green leaves); Brown (Reddish brown underneath)
Fruit Notes:
Red (Red seeds borne on follicles)
Soil Notes:
Prefers well-drained, slightly acidic soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves are alternate, evergreen, obovate-oblong or semi-elliptic, 4" in length and about half the width, lustrous, green, glossy-topped (adaxial), reddish tomentose-bottomed (abaxial), thick leaves. Flowers are very showy, creamy-white, perfect, fragrant, and 6" in diameter, each petal thick, concave and broadly obovate, 4" to 6" in length.