Japan Flora: Shrub with dense pubescence on young branchlets, petioles and underside of leaves; leaves obovate, abruptly short-acuminate, 5-7 cm. long, 3-4 cm. wide, hairy on upper side, duplicately toothed, the petioles 2-5 mm. long; flowers 1 or 2, pale pink, small; ovary and calyx-lobes short-pubescent; drupe subglobose, red. Apr.
Cultivated for the flowers and the edible fruit. China and Korea to the Himalayas.