Copper

This modest-sized shrub grows up to 3 feet (91.4 cm) tall and lives for decades, with the oldest known specimen being around 161 years old. It is susceptible to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has numerous long and flexible, straight stems covered in ridged, copper-coloured bark, and the wood inside is white.

The branches are short, rigid and upright with hundreds of twigs that and are covered with thick bunches of miniature, thick, leaves with tattered edges. The leaves themselves are grey with lilac tips, flimsy and fuzzy.

It produces copious amounts of large, azure flowers with sickle shaped petals with a tube-like floral cup. They detach easily and have a faint scent that smells like rotten meat. In mid-autumn it forms medium-sizedbronze, winged seeds that float and land far away.