Botanical description
Tree or shrub, at least 5 m in height, branches erect, square. Leaves single, opposite, pubescent, ovate to elliptic, 6 to 20 cm in length, margin entire. Panicles pyramidal, terminal, 10 to 40 cm in length; flowers blue or purple, numerous, 10 to 12 cm in length. Drupe bluish to black, spherical, 3 to 6 mm in diameter.