Trees semievergreen or deciduous, to 2–3 m tall. Branchlets purplish brown or blackish brown when old, terete, stout, initially densely pubescent, glabrous when old; buds reddish brown, pubescent, apex acute. Stipule caducous, lanceolate, small, apex acuminate; petiole 0.5–2 cm, usually pubescent; leaf blade elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 3.5–8 × 1.5–2.3 cm, firmly papery, abaxially sparsely pubescent or subglabrous, adaxially glabrous, lustrous, base broadly cuneate or subrounded, margin shallowly crenate, rarely serrate or entire only at apex, apex acute or acuminate. Pedicel short or nearly absent, pubescent. Flowers 3–5-fascicled, ca. 2.5 cm in diam.; bracts lanceolate. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially densely pubescent. Sepals lanceolate or triangular-lanceolate, 5–8 mm, both surfaces pubescent, slightly shorter than hypanthium, margin entire, apex acute or acuminate. Petals white, oblong or oblong-obovate, 1.2–1.6 cm × 5–9 mm. Stamens ca. 30. Styles ca. as long as stamens, connate and pubescent at base. Pome yellow, subglobose or ellipsoid, 2–3 cm in diam., slightly pubescent when young; sepals persistent, erect. Fl. Mar–Apr, fr. Aug–Sep.
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A tree. It grows to 5-12 m high. It loses its leaves during the year. The leaves are 3.5-10 cm long. They are oblong to sword shaped and taper to the tip. They have teeth along the edge. They have woolly hairs underneath. Flowers are white and 2.5 cm wide. The fruit is round or spindle shaped.
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