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Shrubs or trees to 25 m, evergreen or deciduous, glabrous. Branchlets terete. Petiole 1-3 cm; leaf blade ovate to sometimes broadly elliptic or elliptic to lanceolate, 6-17 × 3-8 cm, leathery or papery, base rounded or sometimes attenuate, apex acute to acuminate or sometimes obtuse; primary veins 4-11 on each side of midrib, slightly raised or obscure. Panicles terminal, 8-20 × 8-25 cm; rachis angular in fruit. Flowers sessile or nearly so. Calyx 1.5-2 mm. Corolla 4-5 mm; tube ca. as long as lobes. Stamens approaching apex of corolla lobes; anthers 1-1.5 mm. Fruit deep blue-black, ripening red-black, reniform or nearly so, 7-10 × 4-6 mm. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-May.
An evergreen shrub or small tree. It can be 9-25 m tall. It has glossy dark green leaves. The leaf stalk is 1-3 cm long. The leaf blade is oval and 6-17 cm long by 3-8 cm wide. They are leathery or papery. The base is rounded and it tapers to the tip. The flowers are cream and in frothy sprays. They are at the ends of branches. The flower sprays are 8-20 cm long by 8-25 cm wide. The fruit are blue-black. They are kidney shaped. They are 7-10 mm long by 4-6 mm wide.
Large, evergreen shrub, 4.5-6.0 m high. Leaves simple, petiolate; blade leathery, glossy, dark green, ovate, 35-100 mm long, apex acuminate, margins entire. Flowers: many, in terminal panicles; corolla 3-5 mm long, dull yellow; Oct.-Feb. Fruit a black, shiny berry.
Differing from L. japonicum: height 3-10 m. Leaves dark green, up to 150 mm long. Inflorescences: dense terminal panicles.
