Vinebark Shrubby

This short shrub grows up to 1 foot (30.5 cm) tall and lives for decades, with the oldest known specimen being around 134 years old. It is very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has numerous narrow, straight stems covered in hard, cracked, gray bark, and the wood inside is burgundy-brown.

The branches are short stubs with hundreds of twigs that and are covered with thick bunches of miniature, spear shaped, leaves with rounded edges. The leaves themselves are a shade of copper that gradient shifts to gentle orange at the top, rigid and smooth.

It produces copious amounts of medium-sized, green flowers with broad, flat petals with a trumpet-shaped floral cup. They are very delicate and have an intensely strong scent that smells like freshly washed clothes. In mid-summer it forms giantblood red seed pods.