Magentafern

This enormous shrub grows up to 14 feet (4.3 meters) tall and lives for around 77 years. It is somewhat resistant to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has numerous flexible, curved stems covered in fine, rough, yellow bark, and the wood inside is pine-coloured.

The branches are very long and thin with thousands of twigs that and are covered with small amounts of small, asymmetrical, leaves with smooth edges. The leaves themselves are silver and magenta, frail and sticky.

It produces hundreds of large, lilac flowers with sickle shaped petals. They detach easily and have a soft scent that smells like sugar. In early summer it forms largegold aril (seeds with fleshy covers).