Shrub, evergreen, hermaphrodite, very aromatic, up to 3 m in height, although sometimes can become a small tree up to 5 m, irregular in shape, but generally erect, very ramose. Stems and old branches with light brown bark, first with glanduliferous hairs, then glabrous. Young branchlets tetragonous, from brown-greenish to reddish, \u00b1 hairy. Leaves [(8)10-60 \u00d7 (4)5-30 mm)] opposite, ovate-lanceolate, acute, attenuate at the base, with entire margin, coriaceous, glabrous or slightly villous along the main veins on the underside; pinnate venation; small glands scattered on both sides, dark green on the upper side and slightly lighter on the underside; petiole 1.5-2.5 mm. Flowers solitary on leaf axils, very aromatic, with long pedicels 15-25 mm. Calyx cupuliform, green, with 5 sepals 1-1.5 mm, ovate, acute. Corolla very showy, white, with 5 petals 7-15 mm in diameter, from suborbicular to obovate, glabrescent or with some cilia. Stamens numerous, 6-10 mm; yellow anthers. Fruit a subglobose berry, 6-10 mm, crowned by persistent sepals, black-blueish, but pruinose, covered with a bluish-white powder. Seeds (2.5-3 mm), reniform, with slightly rough surface, from brown to whitish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12864","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n