Evergreen shrub to 3 m or so tall. Young shoots with a few hairs, glandular and sticky. Leaves to about 7 cm long and 4 cm wide, ovate to obovate, shiny, glandular and resinous below, often pointed at the tip, tapering to the base; margin with largish teeth. Flowers in open terminal and axillary clusters, dark pink to red; summer. Capsule about 8 mm wide.

The cultivar 'Crimson Spire' is also occasionally offered.

Argentina, Chile.

E. ×exoniensis hort. is a hybrid between E. rosea and E. rubra (or E. rubra var. macrantha) raised at the Veitch Nsy in Exeter, UK. Similar to E. rubra but differing in being a smaller plant to 2.5 m tall at the most and with smaller flowers in fewer numbers per head, pale pink, tinted with white.

var. macrantha (Hook. &Arn.) Reiche from Chile is the usual variety grown; it grows 2-3 m tall with slightly larger leaves and flowers mostly more than 1.5 cm long.

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Grossulariaceae. 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.