General: Shrub to small tree, to 10 m tall; branches thin, hard, hairy when young then smooth; twigs green.
Leaves: Alternate, deciduous, broadly egg-shaped, 4-7 cm long, finely glandular-toothed, abruptly short-pointed at the tip; leaf stalks short, often with 1 or 2 glands near the top.
Flowers: Inflorescence a short, more or less flat-topped cluster, at the end of a leafy spur-shoot, of several to many stalked flowers; corollas white, bowl-shaped, 1-2 cm across, the petals 5; calyces 5-lobed; ovaries superior.
Fruits: Fleshy drupes with a large stone (cherries), egg-shaped, about 7 mm long, long-stalked, black; seeds 1.
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