Copperleaf

This short shrub grows up to 1 foot (30.5 cm) tall and lives for around 71 years. It is somewhat resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has several stocky, wavy stems covered in delicate, ridged, light gray bark, and the wood inside is pine-coloured.

The branches are short stubs with dozens of twigs that and are covered with large amounts of small, slender, pointed, leaves with rounded edges. The leaves themselves are a shade of copper that gradient shifts to black at the top, frail and smooth.

It produces a handful of small, cream flowers with 6 pointed petals with a bell-shaped floral cup. They detach easily and have a delicate scent that smells like burning wood. In mid-summer it forms medium-sizedbrown, spiky-shelled seeds.