Clinging Mahogany

This average-sized shrub grows up to 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall and lives for around 99 years. It is very resistant to disease but is susceptible to destructive insect infestation.

It has several slender, angular stems covered in hard, silky, mahogany-coloured bark, and the wood inside is yellow.

The branches are tall, rigid and upright with dozens of twigs that and are covered with small bunches of huge, wispy, leaves with rounded edges. The leaves themselves are a shade of copper that gradient shifts to turquoise at the top, flimsy and sticky.

It produces large amounts of tiny, olive flowers with circular shaped petals. They are hardy and have a weak scent that smells like a damp log. In mid-summer it forms largevibrant red, shelled seeds.