Blackbell

This short shrub grows up to 1 foot (30.5 cm) tall and lives for decades, with the oldest known specimen being around 116 years old. It is not very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has numerous slender, straight stems covered in thin, ridged, black bark, and the wood inside is light brown.

The branches trail down across the ground with dozens of twigs that and are covered with small amounts of large, broad, flat, leaves with ripped edges. The leaves themselves are a shade of moss green that gradient shifts to dark grey at the top, delicate and smooth.

It produces a handful of tiny, bright orange flowers with pleated petals with a bell-shaped floral cup. They are hardy and have a weak scent that smells like mango. In late spring it forms tinypeach aril (seeds with fleshy covers).