Turquoise Fernfir

This large shrub grows up to 8 feet (2.4 meters) tall and lives for around 99 years. It is susceptible to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has many branched, twisting stems covered in wrinkled, yellow-brown bark, and the wood inside is silver.

The branches are short, rigid and upright with thousands of twigs that and are covered with very large amounts of large, long, narrow, leaves with rounded edges. The leaves themselves are found in olive and turquoise varieties, delicate and crispy.

It produces many clusters of large, lime flowers with perforated petals with a bell-shaped floral cup. They are hardy and have a fairly strong scent that smells like onion. In late summer it forms giantorange, spiky-shelled seeds.