Cinnamon Spire

This large shrub grows up to 7 feet (2.1 meters) tall and lives for around 41 years. It is not very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has dozens of slender, wonky stems covered in paper-thin, cracked, gray bark, and the wood inside is pale brown-grey.

The branches are very short, thin and wispy with thousands of twigs that and are covered with small bunches of giant, slender, pointed, leaves with rounded edges. The leaves themselves are deep yellow and light grey, delicate and sticky.

It produces many balls of medium-sized, black flowers with spear shaped petals with a trumpet-shaped floral cup. They fall easily and have a delicate scent that smells like cinnamon. In early winter it forms smallcaramel, spiky-shelled seeds.