Clinging Spruce

This small shrub grows up to 1 foot (30.5 cm) tall and lives for around 89 years. It is somewhat resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has dozens of narrow, crooked stems covered in hard, waxy, brown-green speckled bark, and the wood inside is white with black speckles.

The branches are short stubs with dozens of twigs that and are covered with small amounts of huge, slender, pointed, leaves with irregular edges. The leaves themselves are slate on the sides and red at the center, rigid and rough.

It produces balls of medium-sized, black flowers with pleated petals with a trumpet-shaped floral cup. They are hardy and have a powerful scent that smells like lemon. In late autumn it forms smallcaramel, spiky-shelled seeds.