Description
Medium-sized ornamental shrub (up to 3 m) of a dense, round growth, up to 3 m broad, evergreen or semi-evergreen. Leaves eliptic, leathery (10x4 cm), glossy dark green, underneath grey-green. Flowers cream yellow, unremarkable, distinctly sweet scented. October-November. Elaeagnus × ebbingei is a cross between E. macrophylla and E. pungens.