6m. A shrub or tree with red branchlets and wavy leaves often thought to be a Pittosporum.  Red oil glands are found on the young leaves.  Found in forest margins or shrublands, a colonising plant.

Smallish yellowish flowers grow on woody twigs mid summer to mid autumn.

Small black berries ripen in mid spring to early autumn the following season often smothering the stems.

Rapid shade producer.

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