Small trees or shrubs; monoecious. Bark grayish white, smooth. Branchlets pubescent when young, glabrescent, conspicuously lenticellate. Stipules lanceolate. Petiole 2-5 cm, pubescent; leaf blade broadly ovate to ± orbicular, sometimes lobed, 8-20 × 6-13 cm, thick papery, abaxially densely white or yellowish gray pubescent, adaxially scabrous, sparsely covered with short hairs, and basally pubescent along veins, base cordate to truncate and ± oblique, margin shallowly to coarsely serrate or basally entire and apically shallowly serrate, apex acute to shortly acuminate. Male catkins 3-5 cm. Female catkins 1-3 cm. Male flowers: calyx lobes yellowish green, narrowly ovate, adaxially pubescent; stamens 4; pistillode small. Female flowers: calyx lobes obovate, apically pubescent; styles short; stigmas without mastoidlike protuberance, 2-branched, abaxially pubescent. Syncarp white, red, or dark purple when mature, cylindric, 2-3 cm. Fl. Apr-May, fr. May-Jun.
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A shrub or small tree. The bark is greyish white. The branches are hairy when young. The leaf stalk is 2-5 cm long. The leaf blade is broadly oval and 8-20 cm long by 6-13 cm wide. Sometimes leaves are lobed. They are thick and papery. There are teeth around the edge. The male flower catkins are 3-5 cm long. The female flower catkins are 1-3 cm long. The fruit is white, red or dark purple when mature. It is 2-3 cm across. There are some varieties recognised on whether the leaf covering is white or yellow.
Woodlands and sides of streams, 600-1300 metres in W. Hupeh. Sunny slopes or valleys, high mountains; at elevations from 900-1,300 metres.
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It grows on sunny slopes and high mountains between 900-1300 m in S China.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
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