Edible fruit. Honey nectar plants. ornamental, medicinal plant.

Shrubby herb or small shrub, to 1.5 m, often short-lived. Stems ridged, angular, woody, erect, much-branched, pilose when young, glabrescent. Leaves membranaceous, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.2–8(–12) × 1–4(–8.5) cm, bases cuneate and decurrent, margins entire, apices acuminate, surfaces sparsely pilose, denser on margins, veins and midribs, with pilose domatia on lower surfaces, hairs as stems; petioles 1–3.5(–5.5) cm, pilose. Inflorescences usually 1-flowered in branch or leaf axil, rarely 2-flowered; flowers white to greenish- or bluish-white; pedicels erect or recurved and slender thickening apically in flower, 7–20 mm long, recurved in fruit when thickened beneath calyx and often woody, 1.2–3.5 cm long, glabrescent. Calyx shallowly cupulate to campanulate, 2–3.2 × (1.6)2–5.5 mm apically, with 5 narrowly triangular lobes 0.5–1.3 × 0.3–0.6 mm, persistent but only slightly enlarged in fruit, sparsely pilose with spreading hairs to glabrous. Corolla stellate, 5–9 × ± 11 mm diameter with short tube ± 1.2 mm long; lobes ovate to triangular, 2.8–5 × 2–4 mm, spreading or reflexed after anthesis, shortly puberulous on margins and lobe apices otherwise glabrescent externally, glabrous internally. Stamens with filaments 1–2 mm long, glabrous; anthers blue to purple, oblong, 1.5–2(–2.5) × 0.6–1(–1.4) mm, basifixed, exerted. Ovary brown, ovoid, 1.5–2 × 1.1–1.6 mm, glabrous; disc 1.5 mm broad and 0.5 mm high; style filiform, 3–5.5 mm long, glabrous, exserted ± 1 mm, straight or geniculate; stigma 0.2–0.5 mm diameter. Fruit usually pendulous, green, yellow, orange, red or blackish, globose, ovoid to narrowly conical or elongated berries, (1.1–)2.4–5.2(–15) × (1.2–)1.5–2.2(–4.5) cm, smooth, often apically acute and sometimes depressed, subtended by broadly cupulate calyx 2–4 × 7–15 mm, which often semi-reflexed away from berry base. Seeds yellow to yellowish-orange, orbicular to discoidal, 3.2–5.5 × 3.2–4.2 mm, with thickened margin, foveolate/reticulate. Flowering from March-December.

Cultivated places, farms and homes.