Copperleaf

This big shrub grows up to 9 feet (2.7 meters) tall and lives for around 86 years. It is somewhat resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has several thick, crooked stems covered in hard, smooth, brown bark, and the wood inside is copper-coloured.

The branches trail down across the ground with thousands of twigs that and are covered with copious amounts of miniature, pleated, leaves with tattered edges. The leaves themselves are cream with aquamarine tips, delicate and sticky.

In mid-summer it produces thick bunches of small, blue flowers with wide petals. They detach easily and have a scent that varies in strength that smells like old shoes.