Trees or shrubs, evergreen, 3–15(–25) m tall. Bark gray, dark gray, or blackish brown, smooth; young branches green or purplish green, sparsely pubescent with brown appressed trichomes or rarely densely pubescent with brown trichomes or glabrous; old branches light gray, grayish green, or grayish brown, with lenticels or not. Winter flower buds globose to conical, exposed, subtended by four green bracts, bracts eventually expanded and petaloid; leaf buds subtending flower buds, with small triangular to lanceolate scales. Leaf blade elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or obovate-oblong, 6.2–13(–16) × 2.5–6.3(–7.5) cm, thinly to thickly leathery, abaxially light green or powder green, glabrous or sparsely pubescent with white or brown and white trichomes when young, often glabrous in age except sometimes pubescent in axils of veins, veins 3 or 4(or 5), base cuneate or broadly cuneate to rounded, apex shortly acuminate to caudate. Capitate cymes globose, 0.7–1.3(–2) cm in diam., 40–70-flowered; bracts yellowish or white, broadly elliptic, broadly ovate, or orbicular to obovate, 1.6–4 × 1.3–2(–4.2) cm, sparsely pubescent or glabrous. Calyx tube 0.7–1.3 mm, shallowly 4-lobed, rarely 5-lobed; lobes truncate to rounded. Petals elliptic, oblong-elliptic, ovate-elliptic, or ovate-lanceolate to ovate, 1.5–4.2 × 0.8–1.1 mm, sometimes slightly united at base. Style cylindrical, 0.5–1.5 mm, sparsely pubescent with white trichomes or glabrous. Compound fruit red or yellowish red at maturity, globose, 1.5–2.5 cm in diam., nearly glabrous or slightly pubescent with fine white trichomes; peduncle 4–8(–10) cm. Fl. Apr–Jun, fr. Oct–Dec.
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An evergreen shrub or tree. It grows 5-15 m high. The young branches have short brown hairs. The leaves are opposite and thickly leathery. They are narrowly oval and 6-12 cm long by 3-6 cm wide. They taper to the tip. The flowers are yellow and in crowded heads. There are 4 white bracts around the flowers. The fruit is round and yellow or red. They are on stalks 4-10 cm long.
Thickets, broad-leaved evergreen forests, roadsides, by streams, valleys, slopes and forests; at elevations from 200-2,500 metres.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows in evergreen broad-leaved forests between 600-1800 m altitude in China. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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