Shrubs or trees, deciduous, 2–5 m tall. Branchlets dark brown to reddish brown when young, grayish brown when old, initially white villous, glabrous when old, with scattered oblong or elliptic lenticels; buds ovoid, 2–4 mm, apex acute to shortly acuminate; scales brown, glabrous. Petiole 2–6 mm, villous; leaf blade obovate, oblong-obovate, or elliptic, 3–8 × 2–4 cm, herbaceous, veins 5–7 pairs, both surfaces initially white villous, glabrescent or subglabrous adaxially and villous only along veins abaxially, base cuneate, margin densely sharply serrate apically, apex caudate. Inflorescences terminal, corymbose, rarely umbellate, 2–5 × 3–6 cm, (5–)10–20-or more flowered; rachis and pedicels villous, with dense, oblong or elliptic small lenticels in fruit; bracts caducous, subulate or linear, 2–4 mm. Pedicel 1.5–2.5 cm. Flowers 7–12 mm. Hypanthium cupular, 2–3 mm, abaxially white villous or glabrous. Sepals triangular-ovate, 2–3 mm, apex obtuse. Petals white, suborbicular, 4–5 mm in diam., adaxially pilose near base, shortly clawed. Stamens 20, shorter than petals. Ovary densely white villous apically; styles 3, free from middle, glabrous. Fruit red or yellowish red, ellipsoid or ovoid, 8–10(–16) × 6–8(–11) mm, slightly pilose; sepals erect. Fl. Apr–May, fr. Aug–Sep.
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A deciduous shrub or small tree. It grows 5 m tall. It is a broad spreading shape. The bark is grey to grey-brown and develops shallow cracks with age. The leaves are narrowly oval and 7.5 cm long by 4 cm wide. They taper to a point. They have fine teeth. They are dark green above. They turn red to orange in autumn. The flowers are small and white. They have 5 petals and pink anthers. They are borne in small flattened clusters. The fruit are egg shaped. They are 1 cm across and red. They are edible.
Plants 20–50 dm. Leaves deciduous; petiole 2–6 mm, villous; blade obovate, oblong-obovate, or elliptic, 3–8 × 2–4 cm, herbaceous, base cuneate, margins densely sharply serrate distally, lateral veins 5–7 pairs, apex caudate, surfaces initially white-villous, at maturity abaxial surfaces villous only along veins, adaxial glabrescent or glabrate. Inflorescences 3–6 cm diam. Pedicels with warty lenticels. Flowers 7–12 mm diam.; petals suborbiculate, 4–5 mm, adaxially pilose near base.
It is native to China, Japan and Korea. They grows in woods and by streams. In China plants grow in forests, waste places and near streams between 100-1,600 m above sea level. It suits hardiness zones 4-9. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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Woods in W. Hupeh. Low mountains and hills all over Japan. Slopes, forests, thickets, streamsides, roadsides and waste places at elevations 100-1600 metres.
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