Bloodfruit Tree

This modest-sized fruit tree grows up to 10 feet (3.0 meters) tall and lives for up to 25 years, with the oldest known specimen being around 42 years old. It is susceptible to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has a stocky, straight trunk covered in very thick, waxy, brown-green speckled bark, and inside, the very light wood is pale yellow.

The excessive amount of branches are tall, rigid and upright and are covered with copious amounts of huge, sickle shaped leaves with irregular edges. The leaves themselves are light yellow and light grey.

In early spring, it produces handfuls of large, blood red blossoms with umbrella-shaped petals with a tube-like floral cup. They are hardy and have an intense scent that smells like petrol.

In mid-summer it produces small, fan-like fruit. The soft bright blue skin is thin and inedible, and the slightly crunchy sky blue flesh is sweet and spicy and syrupy. The black seed is tiny and sits at the end of the fruit.

The roots are thick and spread across the surface, as well as underground, and overall the tree is rigid and weak, and breaks apart easily.

Forests of this species feature the trees packed together, with the space between filled with undergrowth.