Copperleaf

This large shrub grows up to 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall and lives for decades, with the oldest known specimen being around 171 years old. It is somewhat resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has several long and flexible, straight stems covered in thin, wrinkled, brown-green bark, and the wood inside is pale yellow.

The branches are very short and thin with dozens of twigs that and are covered with very large amounts of huge, pleated, leaves with serrated edges. The leaves themselves are a shade of gray-green and yellow that gradient shifts to grey at the top, tough and fuzzy.

It produces large amounts of small, copper flowers with slender, pointed petals with a trumpet-shaped floral cup. They detach easily and have a faint scent that smells like blood. In late summer it forms giantred, winged seeds that float and land far away.