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It is an evergreen, climbing shrub with thorny stems. It usually grows 10–12 ft 3.0–3.7 m tall, occasionally up to 30 ft 9 m. Tiny white flowers usually appear in clusters surrounded by colorful papery bracts, hence the name paperflower. The leaves are dark green, variable in shape, up to 4 in 10 cm long. The flowers are about 0.4 cm in diameter the pink petal-like structures are not petals, but bracts.