Indigobell

This enormous shrub grows up to 12 feet (3.7 meters) tall and lives for around 36 years. It is very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has dozens of sturdy, straight stems covered in delicate, knobbly, dark brown bark, and the wood inside is gray.

The branches are short, rigid and upright with hundreds of twigs that and are covered with small bunches of miniature, long, tapering, leaves with irregular edges. The leaves themselves are purple on the sides and turquoise at the center, frail and clammy.

It produces handfuls of tiny, indigo flowers with umbrella-shaped petals with a trumpet-shaped floral cup. They are very delicate and have an overpowering scent that smells like pineapple. In late winter it forms smallslate, shelled seeds.