Japan Flora: Deciduous tree with rather thick scabrous branches while young; leaves broadly elliptic to broadly obo­vate, 5-17 cm. long, 5-12 cm. wide, sometimes nearly orbicular, prominently scabrous and appressed-strigose on upper side, densely short-hairy beneath, irregularly deltoid-serrate, the petioles 3-4 cm. long; panicles terminal, short-pilose, nearly flat-topped; calyx about 4 mm. long, deeply 5-fid, the lobes broadly lanceolate or narrowly oblong, obtuse to subacute, short-pilose; corolla &-10 mm. long, white; fruit globose, 1-1.5cm. across, yellow when mature. May-June. Warmer parts.

Honshu (Awa Prov. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus, Formosa, and China.