Where found:

• Coastal to montane forests, streamsides and damp places

• Small tree with flat, fan like branches, the juvenile plants have slender zigzagged interlacing branches
  
• Juvenile leaves are broad and oval (1-3cm x 1-2cm), adult leaves are oval, thin, leathery with black mottles, the margins are finely serrated (4-6cm x 2-3cm), new leaves sometimes have a red tinge
  
• Small white starlike flowers (5-6cm) are clustered on panicles up to 5cm long, flowering from November to March
  
• Fruit is a black capsule 4-6mm