Shrubs or trees, 100 dm. Stems: ?older trunk bark nearly black, grooved, younger gray, fibrous, checked into longitudinal plates?; twigs: new growth lanate, 1-year old pale grayish tan, older gray; thorns on twigs absent or frequent, straight, 2-years old ± bright chestnut brown or shiny black, fine, 4–5 cm. Leaves: petiole length 37–43% blade, tomentose young, glabrescent, eglandular; blade broadly elliptic, narrowly rhombic, rhombic, rhombic-ovate, or broadly ovate, 4–7 cm, thin, base broadly cuneate to rounded, lobes 1–4 per side, sinuses shallow to deep, lobe apex obtuse to subacute, margins strongly serrate except proximally, ?teeth 2–3 mm?, veins 5 per side, apex acute to subacute or obtuse, abaxial surface sparsely to densely white-tomentose young, less dense mature, veins densely hairy, adaxial densely scabrous young, glabrescent. Inflorescences 7–12-flowered; branches tomentose, sometimes glabrescent; bracteoles caducous, ± linear, (larger) herbaceous to (smaller) membranous, margins glandular. Flowers 14–22 mm diam.; hypanthium tomentose; sepals narrowly triangular, 4–6 mm, margins glandular-serrate to glandular-laciniate, abaxially densely pubescent; stamens 20, anthers rose, rose-purple, red, or purple; styles 4 or 5. Pomes red, sometimes red-orange, suborbicular, 9–14(–25) mm diam., with remnant tomentum; sepals often eroded or broken, spreading; pyrenes 4 or 5.
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A shrub or small tree. It has a tall trunk. The crown is broad and irregular or rounded. It grows 9 m high. The trunk is 30 cm across. The bark is reddish-brown to grey and scaly. The leaves are 7.5-10 cm long by 6-7.5 cm wide. They are broadly oval. There are double teeth along the edge. There are usually 8-10 shallow lobes beyond the middle. The leaves are shiny and dark green above and paler and hairy underneath. The flowers are 19 mm wide and hairy. There are 5 white petals. The flowers occur in large clusters. The fruit are 12-19 mm wide. They are bright red with large pale dots. They are hairy when young.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs scarification.
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