Japan Flora: Large deciduous shrub; leaves oblanceolate to oblong, 6-13 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, acute or slightly obtuse, glabrous above, glaucescent and with sparse deciduous hairs beneath, the petioles 6-10 mm. long; peduncles 3-5 mm. long, the pedicels pubescent, 10-12 mm. long in fruit; fruit globose, 5-6 mm. across, red. May.

Honshu (s. part of centr. distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. -Korea and China.