Copperleaf

This short shrub grows up to 1 foot (30.5 cm) tall and lives for around 33 years. It is susceptible to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has many slender, straight stems covered in hard, wrinkled, copper-coloured bark, and the wood inside is gray.

The branches are very short and thin with dozens of twigs that and are covered with large amounts of huge, wide, leaves with tattered edges. The leaves themselves are bronze at the bottom and caramel with peach dots at the top, soft and flexible and sticky.

In early summer it produces copious amounts of medium-sized, beige flowers with fan-like petals with a tube-like floral cup. They are hardy and have an overpowering scent that smells like rotten eggs.