Copperbrush

This large shrub grows up to 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall and lives for decades, with the oldest known specimen being around 153 years old. It is very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has dozens of narrow, straight stems covered in thin, waxy, light brown bark, and the wood inside is pale brown.

The branches are short stubs with thousands of twigs that and are covered with thick bunches of huge, long, tapering, leaves with ripped edges. The leaves themselves are faded orange on the sides and cream at the center, rigid and clammy.

It produces large amounts of large, red flowers with long, tapering petals. They fall easily and have a scent that varies in strength that smells like rotting meat. In late summer it forms tinygreen seed pods.