Blacktip

This small shrub grows up to 1 foot (30.5 cm) tall and lives for around 32 years. It is not very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has dozens of flexible, crooked stems covered in rough, brown and grey bark, and the wood inside is black.

The branches are very long and slender with hundreds of twigs that and are covered with sparse amounts of large, broad, flat, leaves with rounded edges. The leaves themselves are vibrant green with black tips, flexible and fuzzy.

It produces several medium-sized, purple flowers with wide petals. They are very delicate and have an intensely strong scent that smells like soap. In late autumn it forms tinygold, shelled seeds.