Turquoisefern

This large shrub grows up to 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall and lives for decades, with the oldest known specimen being around 165 years old. It is very resistant to destructive insect infestation but susceptible to disease.

It has dozens of wide, slanted stems covered in hard, knobbly, pine-coloured bark, and the wood inside is pine-coloured.

The branches are short, rigid and upright with hundreds of twigs that and are covered with copious amounts of small, very narrow and elongated, leaves with irregular edges. The leaves themselves are amber at the bottom and red with faded green zig-zags at the top, light and covered in fine hairs.

It produces thousands of large, turquoise flowers with sickle shaped petals. They are very delicate and have a scent that varies in strength that smells like an ocean breeze. In late winter it forms smallcrimson, winged seeds that spin and fall nearby.