Japan Flora: Lofty deciduous dioecious tree with grayish brown branches; leaves alternate or fasciculate on short spurs, flabellate, about 7 cm. wide, parallel-veined, irregularly undulate on upper margin, often deeply notched or bifid at apex, entire at base and long-petiolate, glaucous; stamens in loose catkinlike spikes; ovules generally in pairs, long-pedunculate; seeds drupelike, about 2.5 cm. long, broadly ellipsoidal, the outer coat yellowish, fleshy at maturity and emitting a putrifying fetid odor at time of falling, the inner coat horny and whitish, peach-like.       

Only in cultivation.