|This is an upright dense, bushy, evergreen shrub most often used for shrub borders and hedging. It is slow-growing with stiff branches. Leaves are leathery and dark black-green and rounded, 1 to 2 1/2 inches long. Creamy white fragrant flowers are held in pyrimidal panicles to 2 to 3 inches long, followed by round dull black fruit. Clip hedges twice in summer. It grows to 4 to 6 feet in height.