Japan Flora: Small tree with glabrous elongate branches; leaves lanceolate to broadly oblanceolate, 8-15 cm. long, 15-35 mm. wide, long-acuminate, serrulate, glabrescent, the petioles 4-10 mm. long, with glands on the upper portion; flowers pink to white, on very short pedicels; calyx short-pubcscent; drupe typically short-pilose, the stones very prominently rugose. Apr.-May.

A widely cultivated Chinese tree with many culti­vars grown; said to be spontaneous in Kyushu.