Japan Flora: Deciduous tree with grayish bark longitudinally fissured when old; branchlets glabrous, green, some­times reddish; leaves alternate, broadly ovate to elliptic, 5-12 cm. long, 3-8 cm. wide, abruptly short acuminate, rounded to cuneate at base and slightly decurrent, green above, white be­neath, short appressed-hairy on upper side when young, per- sistent beneath, the lateral nerves of 5-8 pairs, the petioles reddish, glabrescent, 1.5*6 cm. long; inflorescence many-flow- cred, cymose, minutely pubcrulent; flowers white; calyx-tube with appressed white hairs; petals narrowly oblong, 4-5 mm. long; filaments about 5 mm. long, the anthers versatile; styles about half as long as the filaments, the stigma capitate-truncate; fruit globose, black, 6-7 mm. across, the stones pitted at tip.  May-June. Mountains.

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shi­koku, Kynshn; common. Korea and China.