‘Levada Gold’

Flowers numerous, greenish, corolla 2mm long; style-end c. 1mm diameter; V-VI; foliage golden-yellow in winter, turning yellow in summer; leaves in whorls of 3, to 10mm long, about 1mm across, tapering towards apex.

Wild-collected, found beside a levada in Madeira by David Edge; propagated and introduced by Forest Edge Nurseries and shown at Gardener’s World Live, Birmingham, June 2010.

® E.2010:08 registered on 17 June 2010 by David Edge, Woodlands, Wimborne, Dorset.