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Growing as a shrub or small tree (to 10 feet tall). Young branches are pink to yellow-green in colour with numerous purple spots or streaks and warty looking zones. Leaves paired, entire, somewhat rounded (i.e., fairly broad), but with a sharply pointed tip, and 7 to 8 pairs of prominent veins sweeping towards the tip. Small white, 4-petalled flowers in a many branched, flattish cluster.

(Photographed at Eagle Lake - June 21, 2002)