The Autumn olive was imported to North America in the early 19th century and quickly escaped cultivation. It grows as a shrub to about 15 feet in height with a similar width. It is rather weedy in appearance and quite invasive. It has alternate, simple, deciduous, elliptic leaves, 2-4 inches long by 1 inch wide.
Leaves are bright green with a silvery underside.
May. These are a half-inch in diameter and can be quite attractive. Flowers are on branching shoots of new growth and develop into green, globose fruit about a third-inch long. Technically, the single seed makes them fruit, not berries. The fruit yield a fair amount of juice considering the size of their seed. Juice extraction is by pressing whole berries, running them in batches through a juicer, or by cooking.