Erect shrub; stems 2–3 m long, densely covered with reddish glandular bristles and sparse slender prickles to c. 3 mm long. Leaves 3-foliolate; terminal leaflet distinctly larger than laterals, broad-ovate, mostly 3–12 cm long, 3–10 cm wide, base more or less cordate, margins dentate, upper surface green, wrinkled, glabrescent, lower surface white-tomentose, main vein glandular-hairy; stipules entire or deeply lobed. Flowers in a short terminal raceme. Sepals glandular-hairy, acuminate, enclosing the young fruiting head; petals broadly elliptic, incurved, rose-pink. Fruiting head ovoid, c. 20 mm diam.; fruit red, falling from receptacle when ripe, sweet. Flowers summer.
Native of east Asia. Naturalised in New Zealand. Collected at Narbethong in 1917 and noted as naturalised in that district. No further collections have been made from there or elsewhere in Victoria and it may not have persisted.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A.; Jobson, P.C. (1996). Rosaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 556–585. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
