Pine-colored Shrubby Maple

This average-sized shrub grows up to 3 feet (91.4 cm) tall and lives for around 22 years. It is somewhat resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has several wide, straight stems covered in knobbly, pine-coloured bark, and the wood inside is brown.

The branches are short, rigid and upright with hundreds of twigs that and are covered with handfuls of giant, thin, leaves with serrated edges. The leaves themselves are pink at the bottom and dark brown with orange splotches at the top, durable and smooth.

It produces handfuls of small, red flowers with 8 heart-shaped shaped petals. They fall easily and have a fairly strong scent that smells like musk. In late spring it forms medium-sizedgold, tough-shelled seeds.