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Large, densely branching, spreading shrub or tree, 1.5-4.5(8.0) m high; bark grey, flaking in thin strips. Leaves dull greyish green, obovate, 15-30 mm long, apex acute, shortly petiolate, margins entire, texture firm. Flowers axillary, solitary, up to 20 mm in diam. Calyx: hypanthium erect or spreading above at anthesis. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, spreading, conspicuous, white. Stamens shorter than petals, in 5 antipetalous groups; anthers conspicuous. Flowering time Aug.-Oct. Fruit a woody capsule with valves opening at top. Seeds somewhat ovoid, winged or wingless.
A tall dense shrub. It grows 3-6 m high. It spreads 3-5 m across. The leaves are grey-green and narrowly oval. They are 1-3 cm long by 8 mm wide. They are broadest and roundest near the tip. They end with a small point. The leaves have 3-5 distinct veins along them. The flowers are white and 2 cm across. They usually occur in pairs. The fruit is a greenish capsule 8 mm across. It opens by 8-10 narrow valves. It falls off.
Shrub or small tree to 8 m with bark shedding in strips. Leaves oblanceolate, leathery, glaucous, apex often incurved, 15-30 x 5-8 mm. Flowers mostly paired in axils, white. Capsules not persistent, 7-8 mm diam.
