Japan Flora: Shrub with stout branches brownish pubescent while very young; leaves coriaceous, lustrous, ovate- oblong to obovate, 4-10 cm. long, 2-4 cm, wide, obtuse to subacute, acute at base, loosely and obtusely toothed to nearly entire, slightly recurved on margin, the veinlets slightly raised, the petioles 5-20 mm. long; inflorescence erect, more or less dense, 5-15 cm. long, densely brownish pubescent while young, becoming glabrate in fruit; calyx-tube infundibuliform, densely pubescent, the teeth deltoid to narrowly ovate, sub­acute; petals obovate, 10-13 mm. long, rounded and often toothed at apex; fruit globose, 7-10 mm. across, lustrous. Apr.-June. Thickets near seashores.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyu­shu. Commonly planted in hedges and parks; very variable. Korea (Quelpaert Isl.) and Ryukyus.