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Grown in the greenhouse where it is well protected, it produced dark black leaves
strongly flushed with purple. The leaf edge corkscrews down to the base, but the uniform colour
of the leaves does nothing to emphasise the shape.Once it had grown outside through the summer, the leaves became smaller and greener, and lost some of the lush opulence of the earlier growth.