Japan Flora: Small tree with lustrous glabrous branches; leaves broadly oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 5-10 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate, cuneate at base, subduplicately obtuse- serrulate, diinly pubescent beneath while young, becoming glabrous on both sides or slightly pilose in axils beneath, the petioles 1-2 cm. long, usually thinly pubescent and with 2-5 glands on the upper portion; flowers usually in 3*s, white, 15-20 mm. across, the pedicels glabrous, 1-15 cm. long; drupe ovoid-globose, 5-7 cm. across, with a depression at base. Apr.

Chinese tree long cultivated in our area and sometimes naturalized.