Carpolobia goetzei Gürke

An evergreen shrub. It has many slender branches. It grows about 3 m tall. It can be a scrambler. The leaves are sword shaped and smooth. They are 10 cm long by 4 cm wide. They taper to the tip. They are stiff and leathery. They are a shiny green on both surfaces. The veins are easy to see on both sides. The flowers are small and white with purple tips. They occur as a few flowers in slender stalks 3 cm long. The fruit are black and 8 mm across. They are shiny when ripe. They are very sweet and edible.

Mixed forest or bushland; margins of lakes or rivers; evergreen thicket; under-storey in forests; grassland with scattered trees. It may be locally dominant on sandy soils in places such as abandoned cultivated areas, from sea level to 100 metres.

The ripe fruit are fleshy and sweet and eaten raw.

Plants can be grown from seed.