Fruits white, sometimes tinted with pink, juicy, subglobose, about 0.5 inches in diameter, usually containing 5 hard seeds. Its tough, resilient stems were made into hoops for fishnets. It is a slow grower taking several years to grow as many feet. It can be trained by constant pruning into a hedge up to 4 feet tall or an erect shrub. No significant insect pests or diseases are known.
Propagation is from seed.
Moderate to light. Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, Sadie Seymour Botanical Garden, Hapuna Beach parking lot.