A rambling shrub or small deciduous tree, armed with axillary thorns and often with tufts of branched thorns on the stem. Leaves variable, 2.9 cm long, ovate, broadly elliptic, obovate or suborbicular, crenate or serrate. Flowers greenish-yellow, dioecious, in short simple or branched racemes. Fruit globose, 8-12 mm diam., dark brown or dark purple when ripe. The fruits are appetizing.

• Leaves variable
• Flowers greenish-yellow
• Fruit globose
• dark brown or dark purple when ripe
• Worldwide

Leaves variable