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A low shrub. It can grow to 7 m tall. It is evergreen and with many branches. The bark is grey or brown. The leaves and small and leathery. The twigs are short, flattened and angled. The leaves are thick and oval and mostly opposite each other along the twigs. They are 1.3-3.8 cm long. The edges of the leaves are thickened and rolled inwards. The edges are smooth. The midrib and veins are easy to see underneath the leaf. The leaves and shoots have dense whitish hairs. The leaves have short leaf stalks. The flowers are small and white. The flowers occur either in the angles where leaves join or on old wood. The fruit is about 0.8 cm long and slightly oval. The ends of the flower remain to form a crown like section on the fruit. The fruit are dark blue to black. They have a large stone. The fruit are edible. There are several subspecies.
Rhizomatous suffrutex, shrub or small tree, 0.3-6.0 m high; young branchlets with rather dense, fairly persistent, indumentum of short, erect hairs. Leaves elliptic to orbicular. Flowers axillary, usually in 1-10(15)-flowered fascicles; pedicels (4)8-16(18) mm long. Interstaminal area surrounding style, conspicuously convex. Flowering time Jan.-Mar.
