Deciduous tree to 10 m tall, with shiny reddish brown to copper-coloured bark and prominent horizontal lenticels. Leaves lanceolate, to 10 cm long, acuminate, margins serrate. Flowers white, solitary, in umbels of 2-3 or more, stalks up to 2.5 cm long. Fruit ovoid, deep red.

Often grown for the shiny deep reddish brown young bark revealed when strips of the older coppery bark peel off.

W China.

VIC: Dandenongs ('Pirianda').

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Rosaceae. In: Spencer, R.. 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.