Obscurer and Obscurer

Can anyone help with yet another of my S. American mysteries?
 
I've got a flourishing batch of seedlings of Kageneckia oblonga, courtesy of a kind if slightly sadistic friend who gave me the seed - knowing I'd be unable to resist trying them and knowing, too, that I'd be equally irritated by not knowing what 'they' were.
 
Tropicos tells me it's a member of Rosaceae, a big shrub or small tree, their specimen being collected near Comquimbe in Chile, from an east-facing fog-pocket 450m up (which sounds promising in relation to its survival chances on the Solway Coast in NW England...).
 
But it doesn't tell me anything significant about the plant's appearance or (if any) attractions.
 
Hence my plea. Anyone?
 
Tim L
 
 
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