Chestnut

This small shrub grows up to 1 foot (30.5 cm) tall and lives for around 41 years. It is not very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has numerous knobbly, straight stems covered in delicate, silky, brown bark, and the wood inside is silver.

The branches trail down towards the ground with dozens of twigs that and are covered with large amounts of tiny, wide, leaves with smooth edges. The leaves themselves are a shade of yellow-green that gradient shifts to brown at the top, flimsy and leathery.

It produces handfuls of tiny, hazel flowers with flame-shaped petals with a trumpet-shaped floral cup. They detach easily and have an overpowering scent that smells like grass cuttings. In midwinter it forms medium-sizedgreen berries.