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Turquoise

Shrub type: Coniferous (Stores water in its leaves)

This small shrub grows up to 1 foot (30.5 cm) tall and lives for around 12 years. It is somewhat resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has dozens of thick, crooked stems covered in paper-thin, waxy, black with white speckled bark, and the wood inside is pine-coloured.

The branches trail down across the ground that and are covered with thick bunches of large, long, narrow, leaves with rounded edges. The leaves themselves are silver with turquoise tips, durable and clammy.

In mid-spring it produces lots of large, white blossoms with finger-like petals with a tube-like floral cup. They fall easily and have a scent whose strength depends on external factors, such as soil quality and rain frequency that smells like fresh linen.

In late autumn long, curved fruits ripen. The smooth peach skin is peel-able and inedible, and the slightly crunchy black flesh is salty and syrupy. The black seed is tiny and sits at the end of the fruit.

It is excellent at collecting and storing carbon dioxide
It is suitable for creating strong, durable textiles