Phillyrea latifolia

Shrub or small tree to c. 15 m high; stems smooth, becoming finely reticulate, puberulent, glabrescent with age. Leaves dimorphic; juvenile leaves ovate-cordate to -lanceolate, mostly 2–7 cm long and 10–40 mm wide, coarsely toothed; adult leaves lanceolate to elliptic, 1–6 cm long, 4–20 mm wide, entire or finely toothed. Pedicels 1–3 mm long. Calyx to c. 1 mm long, lobes triangular, margins ciliate; corolla 1.5–2.5 mm long, tube shorter than lobes; stamens c. 1.5 mm long, anthers subsessile. Drupe globose, c. 10 mm diam. Flowers spring.