Where found:

• Common in lowland forest
  
• Up to 600 metres
  

• A canopy tree with a trunk up to 1metre diameter, the branchlets are silky when young
  
• Juvenile leaves are 10-15cm long
  
• Adult leaves (12cm x 2.3cm) are narrow, leathery with a silky underneath, the margins are toothed and down-curved, the leaves point upwards on branches
  
• White flowers (8-15mm across) in groups of 8-12 flowers on silky-hairy stalks up to 18cm long, the flowers droop from between the leaves or from the branches
  
• Fruit is a purple oval drupe up to 18mm long
  
• Grey bark
  
• The kernel which is like an olive was used by Maori to make a bread