Shrubs, prostrate or procumbent, rarely to 2 m tall. Branchlets yellow-green, densely pubescent; older branches glabrescent. Stipules remarkable, reddish, lanceolate, 3-5 mm, persistent; petiole 1-3 mm, pubescent; leaf blade abaxially greenish and with minute dark pits, adaxially dark green, broadly elliptic or oblong-ovate, 5-20 × 4-12 mm, papery, both surfaces glabrous, lateral veins 4-6 pairs, base rounded, apex rounded or obtuse, with a mucro 1-2 mm, often slightly emarginate. Flowers white, very small, 4-5 mm in diam., in terminal cymose racemes or in fascicles of few to 10 in leaf axils. Pedicel 2.5-4 mm, glabrous. Calyx tube campanulate; lobes triangular-lanceolate, ca. 1.5 mm. Petals lanceolate, ca. 2.5 mm. Stamens slightly longer than petals, with very thin, flat filaments. Drupe yellowish green when young, dark blue and waxy at maturity, globose to ovoid to ellipsoid, 5-6 mm, to 3 mm in diam., with persistent disk and calyx tube at base; fruiting pedicel 4.5-5 mm, pilose. Fl. Jul-Oct, fr. Nov.
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A low shrub or climber which grows to 5 m high. The leaves are papery. They are oval and 1-1.5 cm long by 7-9 mm wide. They are rounded at both ends. The flowers are in groups or 2 to many and are at the ends of branches or in the axils of leaves. The flowers are white. Fruit are about 8 mm across. They are bluish-black and fleshy.
It grows on rocks at 2,000 to 2,700 m altitude in the Himalayas. Plants can survive frost. It is best with light to medium well-drained soil. It needs a sunny position. It is resistant to frost but damaged by drought.
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Hills, open places, roadsides; usually at low elevations. Near the coast in Japan.
Hills, open places, roadsides; usually at low elevations. Near the coast in Japan.
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