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It is a small deciduous tree or shrub reaching a height of **0 metres (***3 ft),usually with thorny branches.The leaves are shiny-green,ovate-acute,*7 centimetres (0.**2.8 in) wide and *3 centimetres (0.**1.2 in) broad,with three conspicuous veins at the base,and a finely toothed margin.The flowers are small,5 millimetres (0.*0 in) wide,with five inconspicuous yellowish-green petals.The fruit is an edible ovaldrupe 1.*3 centimetres (0.**1.2 in) deep; when immature it is smooth-green,with the consistency and taste of an apple,maturing brown to purplish-black and eventually wrinkled,looking like a small date.There is a single hard stone similar to an olive stone.