Restio tetraphyllus 'Cornish Gold'
A tufted, evergreen, rhizomatous perennial with graceful stems of light green banded with golden-yellow. Flowers on this male plant are born in brown spikelets in summer
1.5-2.5 metres
0.5-1 metres
| Season | Stem | Flower | Foliage | Fruit |
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Under glass, grow in a preferably acidic, peat-free, loam-based compost in full light. Water moderately when in growth during the spring, summer and early autumn, sparingly at other times. Plants may be placed outside in the summer and brought back under cover in frost-prone areas in the autumn, where they should overwinter in cool temperatures and low atmospheric humidity. Outdoors, in mild counties, grow in well-drained neutral to acid soil in full sun
A male cultivar, propagate by division of rhizomes in early spring
Not usually required; old stems may be removed
May be susceptible to glasshouse red spider mite and glasshouse whitefly when grown under glass
Generally disease-free