Description
Chilean firetree, Chilean firebush, notro, or ciruelillo in Spanish .... In late spring and summer the vivid deep red flowers sit atop the terminal branches ... The clusters of spidery , waxy orange-red , tubular flowers have four recurved tips and protruding stigmas ... Distinct , lance-shaped leathery leaves are deep green ... A wonderful small upright evergreen tree or large suckering shrub 4-8 metres , in the proteaceae family ... Embothrium don’t require phosphate rich soils and like lime free soil and relatively cold hardy ... Endemic to the temperate forests of Chile and Argentina ... Family:
Proteaceae