Emerald

This average-sized shrub grows up to 3 feet (91.4 cm) tall and lives for around 12 years. It is very resistant to disease but is susceptible to destructive insect infestation.

It has dozens of flexible, curved stems covered in delicate, knobbly, black with white speckled bark, and the wood inside is pale brown-grey.

The branches are short, rigid and upright with hundreds of twigs that and are covered with thick bunches of large, wispy, leaves with smooth edges. The leaves themselves are a shade of emerald that gradient shifts to black at the top, frail and soft.

It produces several medium-sized, beige flowers with umbrella-shaped petals. They are hardy and have a soft scent that smells like petrol. In mid-autumn it forms smallblack, spiky-shelled seeds.