UW Burke Herbarium species comparison

Leaves ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, 1-3 cm. long, light green, strongly serrulate, strongly veiny on the lower surface.

Leaves alternate, the blades dark green, ovate to narrowly elliptic, 15-70 mm. long and 10-25 mm. wide, entire to sharply serrate, usually glabrous, somewhat leathery.

Flowers single in the axils on pedicels 2-3 mm. long;

calyx shallowly 5-lobed;

corolla entire, pinkish, broadly urn-shaped;

anthers with dorsal awns and apical, pore-bearing tubes;

ovary inferior.

Inflorescences axillary or terminal, 2- to 10-flowered racemes;

calyx 5-lobed, green, glabrous;

corolla white to pink, cylindric, 5-12 mm. long, 5-lobed;

stamens 10, the filaments with hairs on the margins;

anthers opening by pores;

ovary inferior.

Fruit a berry, dark red to bluish, 5-8 mm. long.

Berries dull black to blue, 4-12 mm. in diameter, glabrous and glaucous.