General Landscape Uses: Accent shrub.
Description: Medium to large shrub or rarely a small tree with wide-spreading branches. Trunks usually very short. Bark gray. Leaves shiny, light green above, about 1 inch long.
Dimensions: Typically about 3-6 feet in height, but sometimes more, and sometimes staying prostrate and forming spreading mats. Almost always broader than tall.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range: Monroe County Keys and Miami-Dade County; West Indies. In the Monroe County Keys, disjunct from Miami-Dade County to Big Pine Key and nearby islands; apparently never collected on the island of Key West.
Habitats: Pine rocklands and rockland hammocks.
Soils: Moist, well-drained limestone soils, with or without humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements: Moderate to low; it prefers soils with organic content, but will still grow reasonably well in nutrient poor soils.
Salt Water Tolerance: Low; does not tolerate long-term flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance: Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.
Drought Tolerance: Moderate to high; plants growing in extremely dry soils may die during extended periods of drought.
Light Requirements: Full to part sun.
Flower Color: White to pink.
Flower Characteristics: Semi-showy.
Flowering Season: All year.
Fruit: Round black berry.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown from de-pulped seed.
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