Cassine peragua is a medium-sized tree suitable for suburban gardens, with fragrant flowers and decorative, bird-attracting fruits, but its most attractive and unusual feature is its beautiful saffron-coloured trunk.

An evergreen shrub or small to medium-sized tree with a rounded crown, usually 2-5 m tall

Cassine peragua is a quite slow-growing, but tough and wind-tolerant tree for small or large gardens. If planted in an exposed situation in a windy coastal garden it will most likely be stunted. Create a grove of them where you can admire the beautiful orange trunks that will develop and the birds they will attract to your garden.

Leaves are tough, thick and leathery, shiny dark green above and paler and smoother underneath, elliptic to almost round, with rounded and often notched tips, 20 to 45 x 15 to 40 mm. New growth is copper-coloured. The margin is slightly rolled under and coarsely and irregularly serrated. The net-veining is conspicuous on both surfaces particularly on the undersurface and if you hold the leaf up to the light it is translucent. The petioles are short (± 6 mm) and the leaves are opposite.

The flowers are small, white and fragrant, borne in loose branching clusters in from late summer to winter (Feb.-June).