Silverbell

This small shrub grows up to 1 foot (30.5 cm) tall and lives for around 46 years. It is very resistant to disease but is susceptible to destructive insect infestation.

It has many narrow, crooked stems covered in very thick, wrinkled, silver and white bark, and the wood inside is gray.

The branches trail down across the ground with thousands of twigs that and are covered with thick bunches of small, asymmetrical, leaves with tattered edges. The leaves themselves are either amber or brown, with grey streaks, hardy and leathery.

It produces many balls of giant, peach flowers with perforated petals with a bell-shaped floral cup. They are hardy and have a weak scent that smells like freshly baked bread. In late spring it forms smallpale blue aril (seeds with fleshy covers).