An unarmed evergreen shrub 3 to 5 ft high; the young wood, leaf-stalks, flower-stalks, ovary, and calyx shaggy with soft hairs. Leaves stout, greyish, very broadly or roundish ovate, 1 to 2 in. long and broad, the three lobes rounded and toothed, the base usually straight, downy on both sides. Flowers bell-shaped, yellow, honey-scented, closely packed in erect, cylindrical racemes, 1 to 2 in. long, 1⁄2 in. in diameter. Berries about the size of peas, purple-black, hairy. Bot. Mag., t. 7611.
Native of central Chile. A handsome evergreen, and distinct in the shape and colour of its inflorescence, and the hairiness of its various parts. Some forms are less downy. Flowers in early June. It has been cultivated at Kew for many years, and is quite hardy.