Bluevine

This big shrub grows up to 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall and lives for around 19 years. It is somewhat resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has dozens of flexible, straight stems covered in paper-thin, cracked, dark brown bark, and the wood inside is silver.

The branches are short and thin with hundreds of twigs that and are covered with copious amounts of large, spear shaped, leaves with serrated edges. The leaves themselves are blue on the sides and cyan at the center, frail and smooth.

In late summer it produces a handful of small, black blossoms with 8 crescent-shaped shaped petals. They detach easily and have a strong scent that smells like coffee.

In late winter small circular fruits ripen. The fuzzy magenta skin is peel-able and edible when roasted; it is bitter, and the slightly crunchy blue flesh is bitter and oily. The orange seeds are large and are bunched at the bottom of the fruit.