Shrubs, 0.5–5 m. Stems red to gray or brown, glabrous or hairy. Leaves usually persistent, rarely deciduous; petiole 3–10 mm; blade bright green to green, gray-green, yellowish green, or yellow abaxially, dark green to yellowish green or greenish white adaxially, not glaucous, ovate, elliptic, or oblong-elliptic, 2–10 cm, distinctly coriaceous, base cuneate to rounded or subcordate, margins entire or serrate, serrulate, or dentate-serrulate, apex acute or acuminate to obtuse, rounded, or truncate, abaxial surface glabrate or densely and closely white stellate-hairy, adaxial surface glabrous, glabrate, or sparsely hirsutulous; secondary veins 7–11(–12) pairs. Inflorescences umbels, pedunculate, 5–60-flowered. Pedicels 10–20 mm. Stigmas 2–3-parted. Drupes black, globose or slightly elongate, 10–15 mm; stones 2–3.
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An evergreen shrub. The new growth is red. The leaves are shiny green. The flowers are pale greenish-yellow. They occur in clusters. The fruit are round red berries. They turn black as they ripen.
Coastal sage scrub, desert scrub, chaparral, woodlands, forest edges, growing on dry, sandy or rocky slopes in ravines and on hillsides; at elevations up to 2,800 metres.
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It is a temperate plant. It suits hardiness zones 7-10.
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