A large deciduous shrub; branchlets yellowish brown; winter-buds sessile. Leaves pinnately veined, oblanceolate, mostly acute or subacute, glabrous above, somewhat glaucous and sparsely downy beneath, 2[1/2] to 5 in. long, [5/8] to 1 in. wide, on petioles to about [3/4] in. long. Fruits globose, about [1/4] in. wide, red.
A native of Japan (main and southern islands), Korea and China; in cultivation at Kew, to which it was introduced from the wild through the Chollipo Arboretum, South Korea, and planted out in 1983/4.