Bronzebrush

This large shrub grows up to 8 feet (2.4 meters) tall and lives for around 45 years. It is susceptible to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has dozens of flexible, curved stems covered in hard, knobbly, dark brown bark, and the wood inside is yellow-brown.

The branches are short and thin with hundreds of twigs that and are covered with handfuls of huge, slender, pointed, leaves with smooth edges. The leaves themselves are light brown with bronze tips, pliable and clammy.

In mid-summer it produces hundreds of small, red flowers with 7 teardrop-shaped shaped petals. They detach easily and have a soft scent that smells like rotten eggs.