Japan Flora: Decidu­ous tree; branches glabrous, terete, glaucous, with exfoliating bark; leaves ovate to narrowly so or narrowly elliptic, 4-10 cm. long, 2.5-5 (-6) cm. wide, entire, acuminate with an ob­tuse tip, rounded at base, loosely appressed-pilose above while young, the hairs persistent beneath, also with axillary tufts of yellow-brown hairs on under side, the lateral nerves of 6 or 7 pairs, the petioles 6-10 mm. long; inflorescence 20- to 30- flowered, very short-peduncnlate; involncral bracts 4, yellow­green, early deciduous, 6-8 mm. long, elliptic, acute; flowers appearing before the leaves, yellow, 4-5 mm. across, the pedi­cels about 10 mm. long, loosely appressed-pilose; fruit oblong, about 15 mm. long, red; stone smooth. Apr.

Cultivated in our area. native to China.