Japan Flora: Large shrub; young branches and petioles white-pubescent; leaves chartaceous, broadly obovate or narrowly so, 4-12 cm. long, 2-6 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate, cuneate at base, pale green beneath, acutely serrulate, pubescent on both sides while young, often glabrous later, the petioles 2-8 mm. long； inflorescence witli dense white woolly pubescence at anthesis, glabrous in fruit, 4-8 cm. across; flowers 7-10 mm. across; calyx-lobes deltoid, obtuse, white- pubescent; petals often softly puberulent on the claw; styles usually 3, villous at base; fruit obovoid, 8-10 mm. long, red terminated by the persistent calyx-lobes. Apr.-May. Low mountains and hills;

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; very common and variable. Korea and China.

var. zollingeri (Decne.) Nakai. Slightly pubescent; intermediate between the typical phase and the following: