The tono'pak is a rough, tangled prickly shrub with thorny stems. Its brass to olive green colored leaves are oval and serrated, a favorite snack for tsh'in and wild jarel. It grows roughly 0.8 meters in height and breadth, but often smaller.
The berries are straw colored (a pale ivory when not ripe) and taste rather like a mix of elderberry, dewberry and Efrosian levithi nuts, making them an exotic snack and favored import for this species. The blossoms are a deep garnet color and have a distinct fragrance.
The shrubs grow wild almost everywhere along the Thanar Sea coast, but are often cultivated in private gardens.
A honey-colored subspecies native to Khomi can be fermented into a light 'desert wine'.