Shrubs, deciduous, to 1 m tall. Branches dark gray, glabrous; shoots reddish brown, puberulous, sulcate; spines 3-9-fid, 3-11 mm, slender, spreading at base to 2 mm wide, or partly leaflike. Petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade abaxially pale yellow-green, adaxially deep green, obovate, oblanceolate, or obovate-oblong, 1-2.5 cm × 5-8 mm, papery, abaxially not pruinose, both surfaces with conspicuous raised veins, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, base cuneate, margin sometimes repand, coarsely 4-7-aristate-dentate on each side, apex rounded, obtuse, or aristate. Flowers solitary. Pedicels 7-12 mm, glabrous. Sepals in 2 whorls; outer sepals oblong-ovate, ca. 4 × 2 mm; inner sepals obovate, ca. 4.5 × 2.5 mm. Petals obovate, ca. 4.5 × 2.5 mm, base with separate glands, apex shortly emarginate. Stamens 2.5-3 mm; anther connective truncate. Ovules 5-8. Berry red, obovoid, 7-9 × 6-7 mm, not pruinose, style not persistent. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Aug-Sep.
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A thorny shrub. It grows 1 m high. The leaves have 3-6 spines on both sides. The leaves are oblong with a wedge shaped base. The fruit are red berries. They are 9 mm long and 7 mm wide. The fruit is edible.
Amongst rocks on stony and desert slopes and rock streams, usually in low mountain zones. Alpine slopes, talus slopes, desert regions, forests; at elevations from 1,400-3,000 metres.
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It is a temperate plant. In Kazakhstan it grows on stony mountain slopes. In north China it grows in desert regions and alpine slopes between 1,400-3,000 m above sea level.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
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