Mainly distributed in: the Yangtze River basin and its south area, deciduous trees or shrubs, up to 5-6 meters high. Crown spread, bark light gray or light green. Branchlets are slender, pointed, green and glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate or ovoid, with serrated edges, tapering at the top or tail tip, broadly cuneate at the base, pubescent when young or along veins, short petiole and glandular. Pedicels are short, 1-2 peanuts are on 1 and 2-year-old branches, and calyx tube is bell-shaped, red, dark red and green. Single or double flowers, white, red or reddish, fragrant, mostly in early spring1-February. Drupe is nearly spherical, yellow or green, and matures in May-June.

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Mainly distributed in: Northeast China, North China to the Yangtze River valley, deciduous trees or shrubs with brown or reddish-brown branchlets. The leaves are ovoid or ovoid-elliptic, with obtuse serrations, and there are 1 -6 glands at the base of the petiole. Flowers are solitary with open leaves and white or reddish petals. Flowering from March to May. Drupe nearly ovoid, slit and pilose, pale yellow to yellowish red. The fruit ripens in June-July.