Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same shade of dull-green to glaucous on both sides, lance-shaped to egg-shaped,  long and  wide on a petiole  long. The leaves smell strongly of lemons when crushed. The flower buds are arranged on the ends of branchlets in groups of seven on a branched peduncle  long, the individual buds on pedicels  long.
Mature buds are oval to spindle-shaped,  long and  wide with a conical to beaked operculum. Flowering occurs from December to February and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody oval to spindle-shaped capsule  long and  wide with the valves near rim level or below it.