Broad-leaf privet

Ligustrum lucidum, a native of eastern Asia, is a small tree usually growing 4 to 12 m in height. It has relatively large glossy leaves and produces masses of bluish-black fruit during winter, as seen here.

Ugh, it was simply everywhere I looked in just this one area of rainforest I was walking through.

This species has been spread from gardens and hedges into bushland by birds and other animals that eat its fruit. It has invaded rainforests, gullies and waterways in the coastal and sub-coastal districts in the eastern and south-eastern parts of this country. It forms dense thickets which shade out and displace native species and it can also transform the habitat available to native animals.