Dense evergreen shrub to 2 m or more tall. New growth purple. Leaves to 1 cm or so long, thick and brittle, ovate to roundish, blunt, base cordate, hairless, dark green. Flowers paired on short lateral shoots, to about 1 cm long, creamy white. Fruit about 6 mm wide, purple-blue, transparent.
Source: (2002). Caprifoliaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press. (as Lonicera nitida)
