Coppervine

This enormous shrub grows up to 13 feet (4.0 meters) tall and lives for around 33 years. It is not very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has dozens of wide, twisting stems covered in hard, rough, light brown bark, and the wood inside is dark brown.

The branches are short, rigid and upright with thousands of twigs that and are covered with handfuls of miniature, long, tapering, leaves with rounded edges. The leaves themselves are found in dark purple, copper and blood red varieties, light and fuzzy.

In mid-summer it produces dozens of large, copper flowers with teardrop-shaped shaped petals. They are hardy and have a faint scent that smells like rotting meat.