Japan Flora: Large deciduous shrub; leaves oblong to elliptic, often ovate or obovate-oblong, acute to subacute at both ends, whitish, with deciduous hairs beneath, green, glabrous, the midrib puberulous above, the petioles short, 3-4 mm. long; peduncles very short, the pedicels 13-15 mm. long, thickened at apex; fruit globose, black, 6-7 mm. across. Apr.
Honshu (Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea, China, and Formosa.