Twigs are gray with lenticels, somewhat hairy, and with brown pointed terminal buds and raised semicircular leaf scars. Bark is gray to brown, grooved and scaly. Flowers are white in fringe-like, drooping clusters.
Fruit is a blue-black drupe.
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