A scrambling shrub, climber or small tree, 3–4 m tall, which can grow up to 8 m, depending on the climate of the area. The leaves are simple and opposite, ovate, tapering to a bluntly pointed tip, up to 50 × 25 mm and dark, glossy green. The leaf margin is entire and smooth. The leaves have a pink tinge on the margin and on the stalks, and new growth and autumn leaves are pinkish.

Flowers are tubular, small, greenish white or yellowish green or with a reddish base, in dense, spheroid, terminal heads, about 30 mm in diameter, from winter to early summer (July to November).

Fleshy fruits are clustered in compact, rounded heads, up to 20 mm in diameter, at the ends of branchlets. They look like strawberries, and are whitish or pinkish or reddish when ripe in mid to late summer (December to March).