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Plants sometimes low (5–10 dm) and colonial by rhizomes, sometimes taller and arborescent, to 10 m or more; lvs evergreen, typically oblanceolate, varying to oblong or lanceolate, mostly 3–9 × 0.6–1.5 cm and 4–5 times as long as wide, usually acute, entire or with a few sharp teeth above the middle, finely punctate on both sides, nearly or quite without eglandular hairs, as also the twigs; glands on the lower lf-surface ± persistent and evidently of 2 sorts, some shining, golden-yellow, others dull brownish and less resinous; staminate catkins produced in the axils of old lvs in April or May (earlier southward), ovoid, 6–12 mm, with obovate-rotund bracts; pistillate catkins linear, 5–10 mm, loose, with lance-ovate bracts, bracteoles 4–6, ± persistent but remaining small and inconspicuous; ovary glabrous; frs 2–3.5 mm, with a thick, waxy coating, glabrous; 2n=16. Moist or wet, sandy soil on the coastal plain; N.J. to Fla., Tex., Ark., and Mex.; W.I.(Cerothamnus c.; Morella c.; Myrica pusilla)
An evergreen tree. It grows to 12 m tall. The trunk is 15 cm across. The leaves are simple and yellow green. They are sword shaped and have teeth along the edge. The leaves are 6.5 cm long. The flowers are small and yellow-green. They are in catkins in the axils of the leaves. Male and female flowers occur on separate trees. The fruit are waxy berries. These are 3 mm across. They have one seed. They are bluish-white. The fruit are crowded in clusters.
