Japan Flora: Large shrub; leaves alternate, ovate-orbicular or broadly so, 5-15 cm. long, 4-13 cm. wide, usually 3-lobed, green and slightly pubescent above while young, whitish and often long-pubescent becoming glabrate beneath, subobtuse to subacute, truncate to shallowly cordate at base, the lobes ovate-deltoid, the lateral ones erect, obtuse, the petioles 1.5-3 cm. long; flowers opening before the leaves, the peduncles absent, the pedicels 12-15 mm. long, pubescent, slightly thickened at apex; fruit globose, about 8 mm. across, red. Apr.-May. Mountains;

Honshu (Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu.-Korea and China.