Blackbark

This average-sized shrub grows up to 2 feet (61.0 cm) tall and lives for around 11 years. It is susceptible to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has dozens of sturdy, angular stems covered in delicate, smooth, black with white speckled bark, and the wood inside is dark brown.

The branches are tall, rigid and upright that and are covered with sparse amounts of huge, wispy, leaves with rounded edges. The leaves themselves are grey and beige, light and rough.

It produces hundreds of giant, intense red flowers with circular petals with a trumpet-shaped floral cup. They are sturdy and have a faint scent that smells like new carpet. In early autumn it forms smallbronze seed pods.