$27.50
Mature Height
35 - 40 ft.
Mature Width
20 - 30 ft.
Spacing
16 - 22 ft.
Growth Rate
Fast
Sold as a package of 25 seedlings
Native trees are 40ft tall; bark of larger trunks fissured and scaly, but thin. Leaves: alternate, simple, ovate to oblonglanceolate, 5-15 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide, with finely toothed margins, glabrous or commonly with reddish hairs along the midrib beneath, near the base. Inflorescence is an oblong-cylindric raceme that is 10-15 cm long at the end of leafy twigs of the season, with numerous flowers; calyx tube of short lobes, petals 5, white. Fruits: berry-like, about 8-10 mm in diameter, obovoid, black when ripe; seed a single, black, ovoid stone 6-8 mm long. The common name is from the black color of the ripe fruits.