 Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same shade of greyish or glaucous on both sides, lance-shaped, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long.The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of nine or eleven on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long.Mature buds are spindle-shaped to egg-shaped, long and wide with a narrow conical operculum that is longer than the floral cup.