Copperwood

This modest-sized shrub grows up to 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall and lives for around 100 years. It is not very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has many knobbly, curved stems covered in thick, wrinkled, black with white speckled bark, and the wood inside is copper-coloured.

The branches trail down towards the ground with hundreds of twigs that and are covered with copious amounts of tiny, wispy, leaves with jagged edges. The leaves themselves are found in dark red and orange varieties, delicate and waxy.

It produces a thick sheet of giant, cyan flowers with 7 circular shaped petals. They fall easily and have a faint scent that smells like pepper. In early winter it forms largeblood red aril (seeds with fleshy covers).