Shrubs or small trees, 1.5–3 m tall; usually with many thorns. Branchlets red or purplish brown when young, blackish brown when old, terete, with sparse, oblong lenticels; buds reddish brown, triangular, with few scales, apex obtuse. Stipules subfalcate or subreniform, large, ca. 1 × 1.2 cm, herbaceous, margin irregularly serrate, apex acute, rarely obtuse; petiole short, 1–1.6 cm, initially brown tomentose, soon glabrous; leaf blade dark green adaxially, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 6–8.5 × 1.8–3.5 cm, leathery, midvein and lateral veins conspicuous abaxially and impressed adaxially, abaxially densely brown tomentose, base cuneate, margin entire, apex acute. Pedicel short. Flowers 3-or 4-fascicled. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially glabrous. Sepals reflexed, triangular, ca. 2 mm, glabrous. Petals and stamens not seen. Styles 5, connate and densely gray pubescent at base. Pome fragrant, yellow, oblong or pear-shaped, 5–9 cm in diam., sepals caducous; fruiting pedicel short. Fl. Jul, fr. Sep–Oct.
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A tall shrub. It grows 1.5-3 m tall. The leaves are oval or sword shaped and 6-9 cm longb 2-4 cm wide. The fruit are pear shaped. They are 6-10 cm long.
It is a temperate plant. It grows amongst shrubs on slopes or in valleys in central China between 2,600-3,800 m above sea level. In Sichuan.
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Among shrubs on slopes or in valleys; at elevations from 2,600-3,800 metres.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
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