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 Leaves are simple, opposite and persistent on hairy twigs.  Older twigs and bark are gray with lenticels.  Fruit is a blue-black, round drupe.  Chinese privet is a shrub to small tree that has aggressively colonized open areas in the eastern U.S.  

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