Silverleaf Thornbloom

This big shrub grows up to 9 feet (2.7 meters) tall and lives for around 36 years. It is very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has numerous slender, curved stems covered in paper-thin, rough, silver bark, and the wood inside is burgundy-brown.

The branches are short stubs that and are covered with thick bunches of small, long, tapering, leaves with smooth edges. The leaves themselves are either light brown, or cyan with intense orange splotches, rigid and sticky.

In early summer it produces a thick sheet of small, pink blossoms with stiff, pointed petals with a tube-like floral cup. They are hardy and have the faintest scent that smells like vomit.

In mid-autumn stiff, pointed fruits ripen. The smooth azure skin is peel-able and sour, and the slightly crunchy cyan flesh is sweet and spicy and syrupy. The pastel yellow seed is large and sits at the end of the fruit.