Japan Flora: Deciduous tree with dark brown transversely striate bark and rather slender gla­brous branchlets; leaves oblong, narrowly elliptic or ovate to obovate-oblong, 8-12 cm. long, 3-45(-55) cm. wide, deep green and usually glabrous on upper side, whitish and gla­brous beneath, acutely serrulate, the petioles reddish, with a pair of sessile glands near the top; flowers few, in corymbs, 2.5-3 cm. across, pink, glabrous, the bracts obovate-cuneate, rounded, 3-6 mm. long; calyx-tube tubular, the lobes entire; drupe purplish black when mature. Low mountains.

Hon­shu (Kanto Distr. and westw.)，Shikoku, Kyushu; common and variable.             

f. pubescens (Makino) Ohwi. Petioles or pedicels or both thinly puberulent.

var. chikusiensis (Koidz.) Ohwi. An insular phase with stout branches, thicker leaves, and larger bracts; flowers larger, nearly white.  Small islands around Kyushu.