Flowers trumpet shaped with crimped lobes. Flower color pink, white, rose or lavender. Flowers appear in spring and through fall. Attractive to birds. Flowers 5 petals, white, fragrant.
Some varieties can bear fruit twice a year.
Leaves divided into many narrow, leathery, dark glossy green segments. Over 50 species. Some produce beautiful flowers. Silvery bark that peels in patches and long gray-green leaves are fairly common. Light rose to green new leaves, produced almost continuously give the tree a two-tone effect.