Older twigs and bark gray with lenticels.
Fruit is a blue-black, round drupe.
Chinese privet is a shrub to small tree that has aggressively colonized open areas in the eastern U.S. Intolerant of shade. Click on photo to enlarge. All text and photographs are intended for educational purposes only and are not for commercial use in any form. 1999, all rights reserved. Photographs by Mike Hogan or Todd Langston.