Wide-spreading shrub or small tree to about 5 m tall. Bark peeling, a distinctive and attractive cinnamon colour. New growth with reddish hair. Leaves elliptic, about 1.5-2.5 cm long, pointed, dark green. Flowers white, about 2 cm wide, sepals and petals 4, stamens in a ring. Fruit a black, edible berry about 1 cm wide. Syn. Myrtus luma Mol.

Chile, Argentina.

Myrtle-like leaves; cinnamon-coloured scaly bark.

VIC: Mt Macedon ('Alton', 'Curramundi' (2), 'Frencham'); Parkville (Melbourne University Botany Department Systems Garden).

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Myrtaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.