Burgundy Flare

This modest-sized shrub grows up to 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall and lives for around 97 years. It is not very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has dozens of slender, straight stems covered in paper-thin, knobbly, burgundy bark, and the wood inside is burgundy.

The branches are short, rigid and upright with hundreds of twigs that and are covered with large amounts of giant, thick, leaves with tattered edges. The leaves themselves are magenta on the sides and caramel at the center, frail and waxy.

In late spring it produces dozens of large, deep yellow flowers with 2 flame-shaped shaped petals. They detach easily and have an intense scent that smells like baby powder.