Japan Flora: Tree, with dense white pubescence on young branches, in­florescence, and leaves beneath; leaves submembranous, ovate- orbicular to broadly obovate, 6-12 cm. long, 4-9 cm. wide, shallowly lobed, toothed, white-woolly on upper side while young, densely white-woolly beneath, the lateral nerves 8 to 11 pairs, ascending, nearly straight, the petioles white-woolly, 1-2 cm. long; inflorescence a compound corymb, terminal on short branches, many-flowered, the bracts scarious, caducous, brown; flowers white, about 10 mm. across; calyx white­woolly, the teeth lanceolate-deltoid, acuminate; petals sub­recurved, nearly orbicular to elliptic, slightly longer than the stamens; styles 2; fruit obovoid-globose or obovoid, 8-12 mm. long, slightly knticellate, red. May-June. Hills and moun­tains.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. 

var. calocarpa Rehder Fruit 15 mm. long, orange-yellow, not lenticelate. Honshu (Yumoto in Nikko)