Spreading, evergreen shrub up to 1-3 m high (occasionally taller in cultivation); stems erect at first, then arching; young shoots buff-tomentose but later becoming glabrous and dark reddish purple. Lvs mostly distributed along young long shoots, often clustered on short shoots; petiole 2-7 mm long; blade elliptic, broad-elliptic or occasionally obovate, (20)-30-70 × (12)-15-37 mm, subcoriaceous, obtuse to rounded with a short mucro, cuneate at base, ± dull and glabrous with scarcely impressed veins above, pale buff to white-tomentose below when young but becoming glabrate and pale green or glaucescent; margins flat; stipules narrowly linear-lanceolate or linear-subulate, ± floccose at first, usually becoming glabrous or glabrate. Fls (5)-15-60, in flat corymbs distributed along upper part of branches; peduncles < diam. of corymbs, purplish, buff-tomentose, sometimes becoming glabrate. Sepals 1-1.8 mm long, triangular, pale tomentose, acute to short-acuminate. Petals ± patent, 2-3 mm diam., orbicular, white. Fr. subglobose to broadly turbinate, 4-7-(8) mm diam., scarlet or orange-red, glossy.