Tall (to 6m in height) and forming a thicket of olive-green canes with copious narrow, shiny green leaves to 25cm in length. It usually has only one branch at each culm node.

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Usually recorded as an escape from gardens and parks and often close to habitation.

All year round.

Evergreen.

There are a scattering of records from across England and Wales.

Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.