Japan Flora: Deciduous tree with glabrescent rather slender branches; leaves elliptic to ovate-orbicular, 6-12 cm. long, 3.5-7 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate, abruptly acute to rounded at base, loosely appressed-hairy, green on upper side, paler and with axillary tufts of brown hairs beneath, the lateral nerves of 4 or 5 pairs, the petioles 5-10 mm. long; inflorescence terminal, the pedun­cles 5-10 cm. long, erect, loosely appressed-pilose while young; involucral bracts 4, spreading, longer than the inflorescence, persistent, narrowly ovate, 3-6 cm. long, acuminate, usually white, with few parallel nerves; flowers 20-30, in a dense globose head, yellow-green; fruit globose, red, fleshy, the syncarp 1-1.5 cm. across; stones ellipsoidal, smooth.  June-July. Mountains.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common. Korea and China.