Symplocaceae Leaves are up to 6 inches long, simple, alternate, evergreen, leathery, yellow-green below, elliptical, with smooth margins, sweet taste, and yellow petiole. Twigs are gray and glaucous with shield-shaped leaf scars containing a single bundle scar. Bark is green-brown and smooth with a striped appearance, becoming fissured with age.
Fruit is a green drupe.
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