Korea Flora: Deciduous small tree. Terminal winter buds broadly ovate and naked, cluster in groups of 4-5, larger than lateral buds, 6-8mm in length. Lateral buds semicircular. Young branches densely hairy. Leaves alternate, thin, elliptical, elliptic-spathulate or spathulate-oblong, with an acuminate apex and a cuneate or rounded base. Leaf size (10)12-20(25)cm × 4-7cm, hairy on both sides, with yellowish or brownish hairs on the underside. leaf margins sharp, fine serrations. leaf veins very numerous, 20-28 pairs. Inflorescence panicle, 15-25cm × 15-25cm. Petals white, in groups of 5, with 3 circular and 2-3 linear. Similarly, 3 stamens scale-like and 2-3 fertile. 1 pistil. Fruits round, 7mm in diameter, and red.

Flowering early June to mid-July (early May in Jeollanamdo).

Fruiting late September to early November.

Distribution Shandong and parts of Jiangxi in China, Honshu to Kyushu in Japan; Jeollanamdo, Jeoolbukdo, Gyeongsangnamdo, Chungcheongnamdo, Gyeonggido, and Hwanghaenamdo in Korea.

Japan Flora: De­ciduous tree, the young branches with dull yellow short hairs, also the under side of the leaves especially the lateral nerves, the lenticels elliptic; leaves simple, chartaceous, narrowly cuneate-obovate to oblong, 10-25 cm. long, 4-8 cm. wide, short-acuminate, cuneate to obtuse at base, with short-awned teeth, glabrous on upper side, paler beneath, the lateral nerves 20-27 pairs, parallel, slightly arcuate at tip, the secondary nerves perpendicular to the lateral nerves, slender, the petioles 1.5 cm. long; inflorescence broadly pyramidal, 15-25 cm. long and as wide, densely branched, spreading; flowers very numerous, yellowish green, about 3 mm. across, short-pedi- celled; sepals nearly orbicular; petals 1.5 mm. long, orbicular; perfect stamen solitary; fruit obliquely globose, with a persistent style-base, about 4 mm. across, red. June. Thick­ets in low mountains;

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea