Sprawling shrub to 4 m high. Leaf blade broadly ovate to elliptic-ovate, 25-60 mm long, 17-35 mm wide; secondary lateral veins 5-7 per side of midrib; tip apiculate or acute; base cuneate to rounded. Flowers 10-18 mm long, 3-7 mm wide; corolla white. Fruit ovoid, about 50 mm long and 35 mm wide, red; seeds 16 or more. [C. grandiflora (E. Mey.) A. DC.]

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The native C. ovata R. Br., Currant Bush (Kunker Berry), from Australia and New Caledonia is a sprawling shrub to 4 m high with orbicular to ovate leaves 5-55 mm long, 4-40 mm wide, with 3 or 4 secondary lateral nerves per side of the midrib; tip acute; base rounded. The flowers are 8-10 mm long, 4-5 mm wide; corolla cream to white. Fruit globose,10-22 mm long, 7-14 mm wide, black-purple; seed solitary. The fruit is edible.

Source: Forster, P. (2002). Apocynaceae. In: Spencer, R.. 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.