Lilac

This short shrub grows up to 1 foot (30.5 cm) tall and lives for decades, with the oldest known specimen being around 168 years old. It is very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has numerous long and flexible, straight stems covered in wrinkled, white with black speckled bark, and the wood inside is pale brown-grey.

The branches are tall, rigid and upright with thousands of twigs that and are covered with copious amounts of tiny, wispy, leaves with ripped edges. The leaves themselves are green and amber, delicate and fuzzy.

It produces copious amounts of small, lilac flowers with shield-shaped shaped petals. They fall easily and have an overpowering scent that smells like a man. In mid-autumn it forms medium-sizeddark orange berries.