General Landscape Uses:
	Accent or specimen shrub or small tree. Buffer plantings.
Availability:
	Widely cultivated.
Description:
	Small to medium tree or large shrub with a narrow crown from small, erect branches. Bark smooth, gray to light reddish-brown, flaking off in irregular patches. Leaves somewhat shiny above, about 1-2 1/2 inches long, with many glandular dots, aromatic when crushed.
Dimensions:
	Typically 10-20 feet in height; to 51 feet in South Florida. Usually taller than broad.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate to slow.
Range:
	Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland north to St. Johns, Okeechobee and Lee counties; West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America. Disjunct in Key West, where collected once in the 1800s. Other reports as native for Big Pine Key were based on misidentifications of herbarium specimens.
Habitats:
	Hammocks.
Soils:
	Moist to rarely innundated, well-drained to moderately well-drained limestone or sandy soils, with humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	Low; does not tolerate long-term flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance:
	Moderate; grows near salt water, but is protected from direct salt spray by other vegetation.
Drought Tolerance:
	Moderate; generally requires moist soils, but tolerant of short periods of drought once established.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun to light shade.
Flower Color:
	White.
Flower Characteristics:
	Semi-showy in clusters. Fragrant.
Flowering Season:
	All year; peak spring-summer.
Fruit:
	Orange to red globose berry.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Provides food and cover for wildlife. Birds eat the fruits.
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from de-pulped seeds. Plant right away; seeds do not store well. Scatter seeds over soil and just cover. Place in light shade.
Comments:
	An excellent, attractive shrub or small tree for the garden. It is listed as threatened by the state of Florida.