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Eurya emarginata, an evergreen shrub or small tree with
smooth, light gray-brown barks, inhabits coastal areas, growing to
1-6m in height. Leaves are alternate; side branches, simultaneously
distichous, arranged in two vertical columns, blades measure 2-4cm
long, 1-1.7cm wide, in the shape of an oblong ovate, with tips round
but somewhat dented, also with bases cuneate, and also with margins
shallowly serrated. Flowers are dioecious; light yellow-green,
2-6mm-across bell-shaped flowers set themselves 1-4 in a bundle at
axils and bloom facing downward. Sap fruit, spherical, 5mm across,
mature black-purple in November-December. Bloom time:
November-December. |
