Japan Flora: Evergreen; branches rather stout, dark brown, yellowish pubes cent while young; leaves coriaceous, oblong, elliptic, to obovate- oblong, 7-13 cm. long, 2.5-6 cm. wide, abrupdy acuminate, rounded to subacute at base, with acute teeth on upper half, lustrous and glabrous above, glaucous beneath, densely ap- pressed brownish hairy while young, becoming sparsely so when fully developed, the midrib slightly impressed above, the lateral nerves 8 to 11 pairs, prominent beneath, the petioles 1.5- 2(-3) cm. long, glabrous; stamens 10-15; fruiting involu-cres densely puberulous; nuts ellipsoidal, about 2 cm. long. Apr.-May.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. Formosa and China; conunon and variable; frequently planted, with many cultivars. Grown in gardens.