Aquamarine Willow

This short shrub grows up to 1 foot (30.5 cm) tall and lives for around 79 years. It is very susceptible to disease and insect infestation.

It has several long and flexible, straight stems covered in fine, cracked, mahogany-coloured bark, and the wood inside is pine-coloured.

The branches trail down across the ground with thousands of twigs that and are covered with very large amounts of tiny, very narrow and elongated, leaves with ripped edges. The leaves themselves are solid slate or cream, with washed-out green edges, frail and fuzzy.

In early summer it produces handfuls of large, aquamarine flowers with long, tapering petals with a trumpet-shaped floral cup. They are hardy and have a weak scent that smells like pot-purri.