 Young plants and coppice regrowth have leathery elliptical, later egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves that are long, wide and petiolate.Adult leaves are the same shade of green on both sides, lance-shaped or curved, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long.The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils on a branched peduncle up to long, each branch of the peduncle usually with three buds on pedicels long.