Wild Olive is a thorny climbing shrub. Leaf blades are 5-11 mm long; leaf blade elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 4.7-11 × 2.3-4.2 cm, lower surface with scales dense, silvery and/or scattered, brownish, upper surface smooth. Leaf base rounded or cuneate, margin sometimes wavy Inflorescence to 8-flowered. Pedicel 1-3 mm. Fruiting pedicel to 9 mm. Flowers greenish white or yellowish, with silvery scales. Sepal tube tubular, 4-angled, constricted above ovary; sepals ovate, 2-3 mm. Flowering: October-February.