Short shrubby tree, smooth grey bark, berries look similar to blueberries when ripe but are much darker - especially inside. Berry pulp is very dark, almost like molasses. Almost no notable taste. Leaves are small, rounded, somewhat thick, and smooth. Wondering if edible and/or would make a good wood stain. Looking for blues and purples.

Beautiful metallic blue nudibranch found floating in the shallows by rockpools. Long slender body with small blunt head. Two large ‘forelegs’, two smaller ‘hindlegs’ and two ‘tailfins’, shaped like large many fingered hands, spread out from the body. Beautiful metallic blues ranging from silvery cornflower blue to deep primary blue. Long thin pointed tail.
Specimen was able to use limbs to deliberately cling to rock surfaces when the tide went out.
Specimen around 1.5 inches in length.

found a small-flower pawpaw and a common persimmon growing right next to eachother! Very convenient for showing the differences :)

The small-flower pawpaw's the bigger plant on the left <--

the common persimmon's the smaller one on the right -->

Both have smooth, alternating leaves, but the pawpaw leaves are narrow at the base and wider at the top, and the persimmon leaves are more evenly oval shaped.

It also looks like the leaves on the persimmon are spaced further apart than on the pawpaw, thought this might not be something that applies to all of them.