Silverleaf

This huge shrub grows up to 15 feet (4.6 meters) tall and lives for decades, with the oldest known specimen being around 100 years old. It is very resistant to destructive insect infestation but susceptible to disease.

It has several branched, slanted stems covered in rough, white with black speckled bark, and the wood inside is silver.

The branches are long and slender that and are covered with handfuls of giant, perforated, leaves with tattered edges. The leaves themselves are white and orange, frail and smooth.

It produces a handful of giant, amber flowers with long, tapering petals with a tube-like floral cup. They are very delicate and have a weak scent that smells like a woman. In mid-autumn it forms smallorange, tough-shelled seeds.