Japan Flora: Deciduous shrub with slender, elongate, glabrous or sometimes puberulent branches; leaves lanceolate to ovate- oblong, 3-8 cm. long, gradually tapering above to a subobtuse tip, glabrous on both sides or slightly puberulent on nerves beneath, obtusely serrulate, the petioles 4-6 mm. long; flowers 1 or 2, small, single, white or pink, the pedicels 1-2 cm. long; drupes red, about 1.2 cm. across. Apr.-May.