Shrub to 4 m tall, the young shoots covered with rust-coloured hair. Leaves oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 3-6 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, margin with small rounded or saw-like teeth, tip pointed or blunt. Flowers with calyx hairless; late spring to early summer. Fruit about 1 cm wide, mostly crimson; autumn to winter.

SW China, India, Burma. Naturalised on the C Coast and N and S Tablelands of NSW.

Young shoots covered with rust-coloured hair; leaf tip mostly blunt, not tapered to a point as in P. coccinea.

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.