Japan Flora: Much-branched large shrub or tree; branches pale grayish brown, branchlets minutely papillose, puberulent while young; leaves coriaceous, dimorphic, elliptic, ovate, oblong, or obovate-elliptic, 3-5(-7) cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, acuminate, lustrous and dark green above, pale green or yellowish green beneath, glabrous, coarsely spiny-toothed in young and vigorous individuals, entire and obtuse in adult trees, the petioles 7-12 mm. long; flowers white, 4-5 mm. across, the pedicels 5-12 mm. long; calyx-lobes ovate-deltoid, entire; fruit elliptic, purple-black, 12-15 mm. long. Oct.-Dec.

Honshu (Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu.  Taiwan. Several cultivars are grown in gardens.