Spanish cherry's description
Description: Evergreen trees, to 20 m high, bark dark grey, cracked or fi ssured longitudinally, rough; exudation white. Leaves simple, alternate, 4-12 × 3.5-7.5 cm; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, base round or obtuse, apex obtuse to acuminate; lateral nerves many, parallel, looped near the margin; petiole 15-40 mm long. Flowers white, fragrant, 1-3, in axillary fascicles, pedicel 1 cm long. Calyx lobes 8 in 2 series of 4 each. Corolla 1 cm across; lobes 24, 3 series of 8 each. Stamens 8, alternating with pilose staminodes. Fruit a berry, yellow or orange-yellow, ovoid, 2.5 × 1.5 cm, fl eshy; seeds usually 1, oblong-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, smooth, shining.