 Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same shade of dull green on both sides, elliptic, to egg-shaped or broadly lance-shaped, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long.The flower buds are mostly arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven, sometimes clustered near the ends of branchlets, on a peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels up to long.Mature buds are oval to cylindrical, about long and wide with a conical to rounded operculum.