Silkwood Bush

This small shrub grows up to 1 foot (30.5 cm) tall and lives for around 42 years. It is very resistant to destructive insect infestation but susceptible to disease.

It has numerous long and flexible, straight stems covered in delicate, silky, brown-green bark, and the wood inside is gray.

The branches are very short and thin with hundreds of twigs that and are covered with small bunches of tiny, 3 pointed, leaves with smooth edges. The leaves themselves are found in amber and dark grey varieties, frail and fuzzy.

It produces hundreds of medium-sized, blood red flowers with perforated petals with a tube-like floral cup. They detach easily and have a weak scent that smells like rich perfume. In early winter it forms smallblack, spiky-shelled seeds.