Bloodfire Trumpet

This average-sized shrub grows up to 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall and lives for around 38 years. It is somewhat resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has dozens of branched, straight stems covered in thin, waxy, dark brown bark, and the wood inside is silver.

The branches trail down to the ground with hundreds of twigs that and are covered with handfuls of large, pleated, leaves with smooth edges. The leaves themselves are either orange, or crimson with cream dots, durable and waxy.

It produces hundreds of large, blood red flowers with wide petals with a trumpet-shaped floral cup. They are very delicate and have a weak scent that smells like bleach. In early summer it forms smallgrey, tough-shelled seeds.