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Leaves are simple, alternate, evergreen, smooth, leathery, elliptical, up to 2 inches long, and with pubescent petioles and thickened, slightly toothed, leaf margins. Twigs are light gray and pubescent with lenticels. Bark is gray-brown.  Fruit is a black drupe.  Inkberry is a shrub found in wet coastal forests of the southeastern U.S.  The fruit is eaten by birds and small mammals.

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