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Most unusual woody plant?

What's the most unusual woody plant that each of you has in your
garden?  Take unusual to mean anything that makes it stand out 
above the rest in your mind -- odd flower shapes, gargantuan
leaves, rarity, etc.

For myself it's probably Lonicera prolifera, a native honeysuckle
with beautiful bluish-green flowers.  Like the more common 
Lonicera sempervirens, the leaves are also perfoliate (the stem
runs through them -- imagine sticking a pencil through the center
of several paper plates), but the flowers are yellow.  The fruit
develop into a bright red in autumn, and hummingbirds abound
during the summer.  

Oddly enough, it is usually found in heavily shaded woodlands, but
will grow equally well in dry, sunny locations.  It's fairly 
vigorous, so I'll probably have to move it sometime soon.

Chris
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