Silverfruit Tree

This huge fruit tree grows up to 74 feet (22.6 meters) tall and lives for up to 25 years, with the oldest known specimen being around 34 years old. It is not very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has a very thick, straight trunk covered in fine, knobbly, black with white speckled bark, and inside, the hard wood is black.

The abundance of branches are very long, thin and wispy and are covered with sparse amounts of tiny, fan-like leaves with jagged edges. The leaves themselves are solid bright blue or slate, with silver zig-zags.

In early spring, it produces large amounts of small, lilac blossoms with circular petals. They fall easily and have a weak scent that smells like onion.

In mid-autumn it produces , asymmetrical fruit. The soft blood red skin is stretchy and spicy and savoury, and the very soft bronze flesh is sweet and spicy and very dry. The grey seed is tiny and sits at the top of the fruit.

The roots grow as a near perfect mirror of the tree above, and overall the tree is rigid and weak, and breaks apart easily.

Forests of this species feature well-spaced trees, with the space between them filled with thick undergrowth.