Clinging Willow

This modest-sized shrub grows up to 2 feet (61.0 cm) tall and lives for decades, with the oldest known specimen being around 100 years old. It is very resistant to destructive insect infestation but susceptible to disease.

It has many sturdy, crooked stems covered in fine, waxy, black with white speckled bark, and the wood inside is brown.

The branches are very long and thin with dozens of twigs that and are covered with thick bunches of giant, wispy, leaves with tattered edges. The leaves themselves are found in sky blue, peach and light purple varieties, tough and fuzzy.

It produces many large, brilliant yellow flowers with broad, flat petals. They detach easily and have an intensely strong scent that smells like blood. In late winter it forms giantbronze, spiky-shelled seeds.