Shrubs, deciduous, erect, 1-3 m tall. Spines present; young branches, flower parts, and fruit densely silvery scaly. Petiole 4-8 mm, densely white scaly; leaf blade abaxially glossy and grayish white, adaxially drying brownish to olive-green, obovate-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, 4-10 × 1.5-3.7 cm, papery or membranous, abaxially with overlapping silvery and sometimes scattered yellowish scales, scales umbonate, shallowly lobed, margin fimbriate, adaxially with scattered silvery sessile scales, scales fimbriate, only slightly lobed, lateral veins 7-10 per side of midrib, base cuneate, margin entire, apex bluntly acute to acuminate. Flowers 1-3 at base of new grown shoots. Pedicel very short or absent at anthesis; fruiting pedicel erect, silvery, 4-6 mm (or nearly absent in gatherings from Jiangxi), thick. Flowers silvery white, densely scaly. Calyx tube tubular, 8-10 mm, abruptly constricted above ovary; lobes ovate or ovate-triangular, 3-4 mm, inside glabrous, apex acuminate. Filaments very short; anthers oblong, ca. 2 mm. Style erect, glabrous or with white stellate hairs; stigma oblique, 2-3 mm. Drupe pink-red, cylindric or narrowly elliptic to fusiform, 1.2-1.6 cm, scales similar to those of leaves but more shortly and coarsely fimbriate. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun.
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A shrub that loses its leaves during the year. It grows 1-3 m high/ It is thorny. The small branches are silvery. The leaves are narrowly oval and 4-10 cm long by 1-5 cm wide. The base is wedge shaped. The leaves have silvery scales above and silvery white underneath. The flowers are white. They occur as 1-3 on new shoots. They are tube shaped and 8-10 mm long and yellow inside. The fruit are oblong and 12-16 mm long with silvery scales. They turn pink.
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