Shrubs, evergreen, 1-2 m tall. Branches dark gray; shoots pale yellow, terete or slightly angulate, sparsely black verruculose; spines 3-fid, concolorous, 1-2.5 cm, stout. Petiole 2-4 mm; leaf blade adaxially dark green, sometimes shiny, oblong-oblanceolate or narrowly oblong-elliptic, 2-8 × 0.8-2.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially pruinose, midvein raised, lateral veins indistinct, adaxially with obviously impressed midvein, lateral veins 5-10 pairs, both surfaces with inconspicuous reticulate veins, base cuneate, margin above middle 2-10-spinose-serrate on each side, occasionally entire, apex acute. Flowers 4-14-fascicled. Pedicels 7-18 mm; bractlets triangular. Sepals in 2 whorls; outer sepals elliptic, 5-5.5 mm, apex obtuse; inner sepals obovate-oblong, ca. 6.5 mm. Petals obovate, ca. 5.5 × 3 mm, base clawed, with approximate glands, apex emarginate. Stamens ca. 4.5 mm; anther connective prolonged, obtuse. Ovules 2 or 3. Berry ellipsoid or obovoid-ellipsoid, 6-8 × 4-5 mm, pruinose, style persistent. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Sep.
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An evergreen shrub. It grows 3 m high and spreads 3 m wide. It has spines. The leaves are 2-8 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. They have a white powdery coating underneath. The flowers are in groups of 4-14. It has clusters of small, white berries.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
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