Sideroxylon reclinatum Michx.

Shrubs or trees, to 5 m. Stems armed, glabrous, glabrate, or strigose. Leaves deciduous or persistent; petiole 1.5-6 mm, usually glabrous, sometimes hairy at base; blade (lustrous dark green adaxially), broadly elliptic, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 9-52 × 3.5-25 mm, base attenuate to cuneate, margins plane, apex rounded to obtuse, sometimes retuse, abaxial surface glabrous or sparsely villous along midrib or villous across blade (hairs tawny), venation visible, adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely villous along midrib, midrib flat, marginal vein absent. Inflorescences 4-20-flowered. Pedicels 2-16 mm, usually glabrous, rarely strigose. Flowers: calyx 1.5-2.4 mm diam.; sepals 5(-6), 1.4-2.1 × 1-1.3 mm, usually glabrous, rarely strigose; petals 5, white, median segment broadly ovate, 1.1-1.3 mm, lateral segments lanceolate to falcate, 1.1-1.3 mm; stamens 5, 2.3-2.7 mm; staminodes broadly lanceolate, 1.1-1.3 mm, erose; anthers lanceolate to sagittate, 0.9-1.2 mm; pistil (4-)5-carpellate; ovary (4-)5-locular, 1-1.3 mm, sparsely to densely strigose; style 0.7-1.2 mm. Berries purplish black, ellipsoid to subglobose, 4-9 mm, glabrous or glabrate. Seeds 3-7 mm.

It is a temperate plant. It suits USDA hardiness zones 8-11