Russia Flora: Plant: Shrub, up to 3(4) m tall. Upper buds usually paired, elongate-ovate, with attenuate apex, brown, glabrous, with one outer coriaceous hood-like scale. Leaves: Leaf blade ± deeply 3-lobed, with acute lobes and coarsely dentate-crenate margins, base slightly cordate to narrowly cuneate, 5-12 cm long, 3-10 cm wide, nearly glabrous to ± short-pilose. Petiole 2-4 cm long, glabrous or ± pilose, with 2-6 glands, occasionally with 2 small stipules. Inflorescence: 7-11 cm in diameter, on peduncle 2-6 cm long. Flowers: Outer flowers sterile; corolla 1.5-3 cm in diameter, white. Inner flowers fertile; corolla 5-7 mm in diameter, creamy-white. Fruit: Nearly spherical, 7-9 mm in diameter, orange-red. Chromosome number: 2n=18 (Sokolovskaya, 1966).

Distribution: Northern Sakhalin, Upper Zeya, Lower Zeya, Bureya, Amgun, Ussuri, Southern Sakhalin(?), Southern Kuril Islands (Fig. 94).

Found in valley and low-mountain deciduous, mixed and dark coniferous forests along edges, also in shrub thickets near rivers, streams and on steep slopes. Flowering in June-July.

Notes: Ornamental plant, attractive both during flowering and fruiting; autumn leaf coloration ranges from soft pink to purple. Fruits edible and widely used by local population for food; also used medicinally as a vitamin source and cold remedy; bark preparations used externally for treating skin diseases.

General distribution: Eastern Siberia (Chita Region); Mongolia (Greater Khingan region), Japanese-Chinese (North and Northeast China, Korean Peninsula, Japan). Described from Northern China.