Deciduous, spreading to erect tree, 4-12-(15) m high when mature, not armed; trunk tall. Lf petiole (14)-20-32-(40) mm long, glabrous or occasionally with sparse hairs; blade usually thin, usually broadly ovate to broadly elliptic, occasionally oblong or narrowly obovate, (70)-80-130-(155) × (40)-45-60-(65) mm, acuminate to long-acuminate at apex, usually rounded to subcordate or occasionally cuneate at base, glabrous above and below, with lower surface slightly paler, serrate with teeth aristate and often gland-tipped; stipules long-triangular, early deciduous. Infl. a corymbose cluster of (2)-3-4-(6) fls, on short lateral shoots, sometimes clustered near branchlet tips, up to 45-(80) mm long, ± pendent; fls not fragrant; pedicels (10)-14-(35) mm long, glabrous, subtended by serrate bracts. Hypanthium narrowly campanulate; sepals 4-7-(8) mm long, lanceolate or subulate, acuminate, glabrous, greenish to magenta, erect to spreading or occasionally reflexed. Petals 5 or many, ± spreading at anthesis, broadly obovate to orbicular, (12)-14-18-(20) × 9-14 mm, undulate and notched, white or pink-flushed to rose. Stamens < petals; filaments whitish or flushed pale pink. Fr. < 15 mm diam., globose, glabrous, black-purple, bitter; stone smooth.