Japan Flora: Small tree with green branchlets; leaves broadly ovate, 4-10 cm. long, long- acuminate, broadly cuneate at base, acutely serrulate, sparingly pilose or sometimes only on nerves beneath, the petioles short- pilose above; flowers 1 or 2, appearing before the leaves, white or pink; drupe subglobose, the stones rugose.  Feb.-Apr. Said to be indigenous in the mountainous parts of Kyushu.

A much-planted Chinese tree with many cultivars grown.