Hazel

This small shrub grows up to 1 foot (30.5 cm) tall and lives for around 88 years. It is susceptible to disease and destructive insect infestation.

It has dozens of knobbly, curved stems covered in smooth, brown-green bark, and the wood inside is dark brown.

The branches trail down to the ground with hundreds of twigs that and are covered with small amounts of tiny, spear shaped, leaves with ripped edges. The leaves themselves are a shade of hazel that gradient shifts to aquamarine at the top, flimsy and smooth.

It produces a handful of small, yellow flowers with fan-like petals. They are hardy and have a weak scent that smells like alcohol. In midwinter it forms smalllight grey aril (seeds with fleshy covers).