The Chilean fire bush is a good name for this, except that with time it really becomes a small tree, but from an early age it can clothe its branches with flaming red flowers. These are unusual, and not easy to describe; they consist of many bright scarlet narrow tubes, making a somewhat ragged composite flower, which will overlap with its neighbours. The effect is the cover substantial parts of the branches with - I don't know how to describe it. Buy one and see.

Embothrium coccineum is the normal form of the Chilean fire bush.