Evergreen shrub or small tree to 9 m or so tall. Leaves entire, 5-12 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, shape variable, margins sometimes wavy, tip pointed. Leaf stalk 1-2 cm long. Flower clusters flat, hairy, to 8 cm or so wide. Fruit more or less spherical, red. Syn. Stranvaesia davidiana Decne.
China.
Source: (2002). Rosaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.