Evergreen shrub, hermaphrodite, very ramose, up to 4 m in height. Crown dense and rounded. Bark greyish, fissured on older stems, smooth on branches. Branches extended-upright and flexible. Branchlets reddish, densely villous when young. Leaves opposite (3-15 \u00d7 1.5-8 cm), ovate-elliptical or broadly lanceolate, with rounded tip, entire, with undulate margin, coriaceous, dark green and glabrous on the upper side and much more lighter and somewhat villous on the axil of the veins on the underside. Stipules absent. Flowers small (4-9 mm in diameter) in flattened, dense corymbiform cymes, always erect, slightly fragrant. Corolla with 5 petals, white on the upper side and pink on the underside. Flower buds pink. Calyx with 5 small acute lobes. Stamens 5. Fruit in the shape of a small ovoid drupe (5-8 mm), green at first, becoming darker with blackish or reddish tones until it reaches a deep metallic blue colour, sometimes so dark that it looks black. Seed 1, almost the size of the fruit, as it is covered only by the skin and a very thin fleshy layer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13536","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n