Blackbrush

This big shrub grows up to 6 feet (1.8 meters) tall and lives for decades, with the oldest known specimen being around 161 years old. It is not very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has dozens of wide, twisting stems covered in silky, black with white speckled bark, and the wood inside is brown.

The branches are tall, rigid and upright with dozens of twigs that and are covered with thick bunches of large, thick, leaves with serrated edges. The leaves themselves are gold at the bottom and black with red splotches at the top, rigid and covered in fine hairs.

It produces copious amounts of tiny, green flowers with pleated petals with a tube-like floral cup. They are sturdy and have the faintest scent that smells like wet dog. In mid-autumn it forms smallbeige, shelled seeds.