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Shrub or small tree, evergreen, hermaphrodite, up to 8 m in height and even taller, but generally not exceeding 4 m. Irregular in shape, with \u00b1 dense foliage. Trunk tortuous, with brown-greyish or blackish bark, rugose, with outer layers peeling off into short strips. Branches extended-erect, greyish or reddish. Branchlets reddish, glabrous or villous-glandular. Leaves (4-11 \u00d7 1.5-4 cm) alternate, shortly petiolate, lanceolate, lauroid, with very variable margin (even in the same plant), serrate or serrulate, rarely crenate, subentire or entire, glabrous, deep bright green on the upper side, and slightly lighter and matt on the underside. Inflorescences in pendant panicles, terminal. Flowers with very small calyx, triangular sepals 1-1.5 mm. Corolla white (7-10 mm), ovate, with 5 revolute lobes at the top. Anthers included, with 2 entire appendages. Fruit a globose berry, (8)10-20(25) mm in diameter, covered with warts ending in obtuse or subacute tips, deep red. 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