Erect shrub to 5 m tall. Leaves 2-4 cm long, to 0.5-1 cm wide, obovate, roundtoothed, especially towards the tip. Flowers with calyx tube hairless outside; spring to summer. Fruit about 1 cm wide, mostly orange red; autumn to winter.

f. flava hort. has butter yellow berries.

SW China. Naturalised on the N and S Tablelands of NSW.

Inflorescence and calyx mostly without hair; differs from P. crenulata in having white-hairy new growth and smaller leaves that are clearly widest towards the tip.

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.