Burgundy Silk Tree

This short tree grows up to 4 meters (13.1 feet) tall and lives for centuries, with the oldest known specimen being around 696 years old. It is not very resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has a stocky, wavy trunk covered in paper-thin, silky, burgundy bark, and inside, the medium-dense wood is burgundy.

The branches are short, thin and wispy and are covered with copious amounts of covered in fine hairs, huge, long, tapering leaves with smooth edges. The leaves themselves are peach and bold green.

In late summer it forms large, yellow, spiky-shelled seeds.

The roots grow as a near perfect mirror of the tree above, and overall the tree is rigid and weak, and breaks apart easily.

Forests of this species feature well-spaced trees, with patches of undergrowth between them.