Tree, 2 to 6 m tall, with grayish-white bark. Branchlets gray-brown, shoots green, glabrous or sparsely pilose. Winter buds ovate, glabrous. Leaf blade ovate or oblong-ovate, 5 to 12 centimeters long, 3 to 5 centimeters wide, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, base rounded, margins acutely biserrate, teeth terminated by small glands, dark green above, subglabrous, light green below, sparsely pilose along or between veins, lateral veins 9 to 11 pairs, stipules caducous, lanceolate, pinnatifid glandular teeth.

Inflorescence corymbose or subumbellate, with 3 to 6 flowers, opening before the leaves. Involucre obovate-elliptic, brown, ca. 5 mm long, ca. 3 mm wide, margin glandular-dentate, calyx tube campanulate, 3 to 6 mm long, 2 to 3 mm wide, outside sparsely pilose, sepals triangular-ovate-orbicular or ovate-oblong, apex acute or obtuse, margin entire, half or more than half as long as calyx tube. Drupe subglobose, red. Flowering from March to April, fruiting from May to June.

The cherry tree is a deciduous tree or shrubby bush of the family Rosaceae, genus Li. Cherry is also known as waring peach, containing peach, cow peach, Zhu Cherry, wheat cherry, wax cherry, cliff honey and so on. Cherry tree Rosaceae plum genus deciduous small trees, up to 8m high.

Leaves ovate to ovate-elliptic, 7~12cm long, apex acute, base rounded, margins with varying sizes of biserrate, glandular between the teeth, glabrous or slightly hairy on the upper side, the abaxial surface sparsely pilose. Flowers white, ca. 1.5~2.5cm in diameter, calyx tube hairy; 3~6 clusters in racemes. Fruit subglobose, 1~1.5cm in diameter, red. Flowering in March, first flowering and then growing leaves; fruit ripe in May-June.