Shrubs, suckering, 5–20 dm, not thorny. Twigs with terminal end buds, glabrous. Leaves deciduous; petiole 1–6 mm, hairy on adaxial surface, eglandular; blade narrowly elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 2.5–9 × 0.9–2.5 cm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins crenulate-serrulate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex acute to acuminate, abaxial surface glabrous or slightly hairy along midribs and veins, adaxial glabrous. Inflorescences solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles. Pedicels 6–15 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent. Flowers blooming at leaf emergence; hypanthium campanulate, 2–3 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent externally; sepals spreading to reflexed, ovate, 2.5–5 mm, margins glandular-toothed, ?± ciliate?, surfaces glabrous or sparsely puberulent; petals ?25+?, white or pink, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 8–11 mm; ovaries glabrous. Drupes reddish, subglobose, 10–15 mm, glabrous; mesocarps fleshy; stones subglobose, not flattened.
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A small shrub. It grows 1.5 m tall and spreads 1.5 m wide. The branches are upright. The leaves are rather narrow and have fine teeth along the edges. The flowers are white or pink. The fruit are dark red.
Open stony dry slopes and rocks, open sunny places, solitary or in small groves. Mountain slopes, sides of ravines and thickets; at elevations from 800-2,300 metres.
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Temperate. It suits hardiness zones 4-9. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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