The flowers are pale lavender in color and are born in the leaf axils. The corolla of the small flower may be lavender to nearly white with the throat being streaked with purple. The blooms appear in March through December. The fruit ripens in late autumn or early winter. The berry is a bright, lustrous red when ripe and elliptic to oval in shape.
Birds are very fond of the fruit.
Christmas berry grows in full sun, with average moisture, and an average pH. Many native plant nurseries in our area carry Christmas berry. Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Northern Florida and Adjacent Georgia and Alabama . Athens, GA 1988 Scurlock, J. Paul. Native Trees and Shrubs of the Florida Keys . Taylor, Walter Kingsley.