Horizontally spreading, much-branched, deciduous shrub, the branches green,glabrous, with 4 corky wings; leaves short-petiolate,membranous, obovate to broadlyoblanceolate, 1.5-7cm Long, 1-4cmWide, acuminate to acute at both ends, glabrous,finely serrulate; cymes 1-to few-lowered, on slender peduncles about 2cm long, thepedicels short; flowers 4-merous, pale green, about 6mm across; calyx-teethdepressed-rounded, with minute teeth on margin; petals orbicular; fruiting carpelsusually 1 or 2, narrowly obovoid, about 8mmlong, pale red, 1-seeded; seedsellipsoidal, 4-6mm long, enclosed in an orange-vermilion aril. -May -June. (Korea)