A shrub growing to 9 m tall, with dull grey-brown bark. It is evergreen, with small fragrant oval leaves 0.5-2.5 cm long and 0.3-1.5 cm broad, and white flowers in early to mid summer. Its fruit is an edible dark purple berry 1 cm in diameter, ripe in early autumn.

Antibacterial, astringent, diuretic, expectorant, hypotensive, tonic.

For bronchosis, eye diseases, diarrhea, gout, high Blood Pressure, pulmonosis.