Shrub or small tree, deciduous, hermaphrodite, 2-6(10) m in height, irregular in shape, with generally well defined trunk, with extended or ascending branches. Bark of trunk smooth, dark brown and with lenticels. Branches very open, branchlets with unpleasant smell, brown or dark brown, with whitish lenticels. Leaves (4)5-10(11) \u00d7 (2.5)3-5.5(6) cm, ovate-elliptic, elliptic or obovate, sometimes somewhat cordiform at the base, narrowing into a tip, margin finely serrulate, sometimes with glands on the teeth, matt green and glabrous on the upper side, paler on the underside; petiole short. Flowers 15-40, smelly, glabrous, in multifloral racemes of up to 15 cm long, usually pendant, with small leaves at the base. Calyx with 5 erect sepals, 1-2 mm, broadly triangular or ovate, obtuse or more rarely subacute, glandular-ciliate. Corolla with 5 white petals 6-9 mm, free. Fruit subglobose, 7-8 mm in diameter, red at first and then bright black, bitter to taste, with narrow mesocarp, endocarp or stone ovoid or subglobose, foveolate-reticulate, sulcate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12849","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n