Habitat - Riverine rainforest areas and riparian areas in vine and rainforest vegetation near watercourses.
Height at maturity - Up to 18 metres, but commonly found as 'shrubs' 1 to 3 metres in height.
Young trees - Young trees are shorter, appear less bushy, with fewer leaves and branches.
Fruit - Globular, glossy purple-black fruit, 7 to 12 millimetres in size when ripe, appear in mid to late Summer.
Bark - Flaky, furrowed or scaly. Pale brown to grey in colour. Its bark is one of the best ways to tell it apart from similar looking plants.
Angled stems - Leaves have four raised edges on their branchlets, hence the name Angle-stemmed myrtle.
Mature leaves - Mature leaves are glossy and a deep green colour.
Young leaves - Young leaves, that follow emerging growth, are a bright pale green colour.
Emerging leaves - A pink flush of leaves covers the tree when emerging leaves grow in late spring to summer.
Flowers - Delicate white flowers appear each Spring. Each flower grows from the base of the leaves.
Flower size - Flowers have 4 or 5 smooth petals and range from 6 to 9 millimetres in diameter.
Unripe fruit - Unripe fruit, in its early stages is paler, and greener in colour
Fruit in later stages - In its later stages the fruit appears less glossy and may split.