Large, glabrous, evergreen shrub or small drect tree with green, smooth, rather thickterete branches; leaves thick-coriaceous, elliptic or obovate, sometimes oblong, 3-7(-10)cm Long, 2-4(-6)cmWide. Acute to obtuse, cuneate to acute at base, obtuselyserrate, lustrous, the lateral nerves not prominent, the petioles 8-15(-20)mmlong,green; inflorescence 4-7cm long, densely rather manyflowered,on thick, ratherflattened peduncles 2-5cm long; flowers 4-merous, pale freen, about 5mm across;calyx-teeth semirounded, entire; petals elliptic; filaments longer than the anthers; fruitglobose, about 7mm across, the aril orange-red. -June -July. (Korea)