Tree up to 40 m high, suckering prolifically and with epicormic shoots. Bark grey, strongly fissured. Twigs hairy at first, becoming smooth and grey or brown in second year. Adult lvs broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, serrate, scabrid and often glandular above and below, also often villous near midvein below, 5-12 cm long; lateral veins in 9-14-(18) pairs; basal auricle usually not overlapping petiole. Lvs of basal shoots mostly somewhat shorter. Petioles much < blade. Stipules when remaining, oblong, entire, c. 7-12 mm long. Fr. broadly obovate, light brown, 2-3 cm long.