Japan Flora: Glabrous tree with grayish branches; leaves membranous, ovate or broadly so, 4-7 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. wide, abruptly or shortly acuminate, acute to rounded at base, mucronate, serrate, sparsely puberulous or nearly glabrous on upper side, with spreading pubescence especially on nerves beneath, pale green and lustrous beneath, the petioles 1-2 cm. long; flowers on short spurs, greenish white, about 4 mm. across, the pedicels slender, 6-12 mm. long; calyx 4- to 5-lobed, ciliolate; petals elliptic, about 2.5 mm. long; stamens 4 or 5; fruit globose-llipsoidal, about 7 mm. long, red, the pyrenes shallowly grooved.  Mountains.

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

f. pseudomacropoda (Loesen.) Hara. Leaves glabrous beneath.