Skimmia arborescens T.Anderson ex Gamble

Trees to 8 m tall, d.b.h. to 20 cm. Branches with small but prominent pith. Petiole 1-2 cm; leaf blade elliptic, oblong, or obovate-elliptic, 5-18 × 2-6 cm, papery, glabrous, midvein adaxially prominent, secondary veins 7-10 on each side of midvein. Inflorescences 2-5 cm; rachis puberulent or glabrous; bracts broadly ovate, 1-1.5 mm. Sepals ovate, margin ciliate. Petals 5, yellowish, obovate to ovate-oblong, 4-5 mm. Male flowers: stamens longer than petals; filaments filiform; rudimentary gynoecium barlike, 3-4 mm, apex 3-or 4-lobed. Female flowers: rudimentary stamens shorter than petals; ovary globose; style ca. 1 mm; stigma capitate. Fruit bluish black, globose, 6-8 mm in diam., 1-3-seeded. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Jul-Sep.

It is a subtropical plant. It grows in shady, moist mountain areas between 1,000-2,800 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.

The leaves are used for flavouring. They have a musk like flavour.