Ardisia humilis (jet berry) is a species of flowering plant in the genus Ardisia in the family Primulaceae, native to southeastern Asia in southern China (Guangdong, Hainan), the Philippines, and Vietnam.
Ardisia humilis is an evergreen shrub growing 1âÂÂ2 m (rarely to 5 m) tall. The leaves are broad ovate to elliptical, 15âÂÂ18 cm long and 5âÂÂ7 cm broad, with a leathery texture and an acute apex. The flowers are reddish-purple to pink and 5âÂÂ6 mm diameter; they are produced in corymbs in mid-spring. The fruit is a red to dark purple drupe 6 mm diameter, containing a single seed, and it matures in late autumn.
Ardisia humilis is considered to be included in the single variable species Ardisia elliptica by some botanists.