Korea Flora: Deciduous shrub. Height 30-40cm. Young branches glabrous. Leaves alternate, long spoon-shaped or oblanceolate, apex acute or obtuse, 4.0-8.5cm long. Upper surface blue-green, lower surface slightly glaucous, margins entire. Petiole 5-7mm long. Flowers dioecious, racemes develop in leaf axils at the tips of previous year's branches, bearing 2-5 flowers. Female flowers slightly smaller, sepals yellow, ovate or lanceolate, apex acuminate, calyx tube green, 8 stamens. Fruit and seed circular or elliptical, red. 

Flowering February-April,

Fruiting May-June.

Distribution: Japan; Pyonganbukdo and Hamgyongbukdo, Gangwondo, and Jirisan in Jeollanamdo along the Baekdudaegan mountain range in Korea.

Taxonomic notes: The Japanese English edition flora (Iwatsuki et al., 1999) recognizes D. jezoensis Maxim. as the species distributed in southern Kuril Islands and Sakhalin of Far Eastern Russia and northern Japan (Hokkaido), and D. pseudomezereum A. Gray as the species distributed in central and southern Japan (Kyushu). The distinction between these two species based on flower color and number of winter buds is somewhat ambiguous. Particularly, Daphne kamtschatica distributed in Jeju Island is reported as D. pseudomezereum var. pseudomezereum, while Daphne kamtschatica distributed throughout the Korean Peninsula and Japan (based on the claim of different stamen attachment positions) is treated as D. pseudomezereum var. koreana (Nakai) Hamaya, thus subdividing D. kamtschatica into several taxa. Here, a broader species concept is applied and this existing scientific name is used.