Common Name : Dandal

It is a tall shrub or a small tree, evergreen, 4-7m tall. Bark is grey-brown, with spiny, hairless branchlets. Leaf stalk is 5-8mm long, and the leaf blade narrowly elliptic, oblong-elliptic, oblong-lance-shaped, or narrowly obovate, 4-15cm long and 2.5-5cm wide, leathery, smooth, margin serrate, tip sharp. Flowers are borne in short racemes or reduced panicles, borne singly or in condensed clusters in leaf axils. Flowers are greenish, 2.5-3.5mm in diameter. Flower stalks 1-2mm, slender, puberulous. Sepals 4 or 5, persistent, ovate or lance-shaped, 1-2mm. Berry is reported as red when ripe, drying black, spherical, 4-6mm in diameter.