Psidium cattleyanum Sabine

Large shrub or small tree to 6 m high.  Trunk smooth, pale brown.  Shoots terete or subterete, puberulent when young.  Petioles 7–10 mm long, puberulent. Lamina 4–8 × 2.5–4.5 cm, obovate, ciliolate toward base of margins and midrib, at least when young, otherwise glabrous, dotted with glands beneath, glossy and dark green above;  lateral veins fairly conspicuous in dried material but not impressed or markedly raised;  base cuneate, often narrowly so;  apex usually obtuse, sometimes rounded.  Fls solitary, often produced in nearly all axils of upper lvs;  pedicels 7–10 mm long, puberulent, jointed near apex with very small, caducous, ovate bracteoles.  Hypanthium and calyx limb glandular-punctate; lobes usually 5, 3–4 mm long.  Petals  c. 5 mm long, elliptic, white, ± glandular-punctate.  Stamens > petals.  Style  c. 4 mm long, stout.  Fr. ± globose,  c. 2 cm diam., becoming dark purple, occasionally yellow;  flesh usually purple, occasionally whitish, sweet.  Seeds numerous.  

[From:  Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4. as Psidium cattleianum Sabine]

Flowering: Jun.–Mar.