Tree to c. 10 m high; branchlets densely rusty-tomentose. Leaves lanceolate, oblanceolate, obovate, or elliptic-oblong, 12–30 cm long, 3–9 cm wide, base cuneate, apex acute, margins entire basally, serrate distally, leathery, glossy above, rusty-tomentose below; petiole 6–10 mm long, densely rusty-tomentose; stipules subulate, to c. 15 mm long. Inflorescence a dense, many-flowered panicle to c. 20 cm long. Flowers fragrant; pedicle 2–8 mm long, rusty-tomentose. Sepals triangular-ovate, 2–3 mm long, densely rusty tomentose; petals white; carpels 5, ovules 2 per carpel; styles 5, free. Pome globose or obovoid, 10–15 mm diam., yellow or orange-yellow, tomentose. Flowers winter–spring.
VVP, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, HSF, OtR, Strz. Also naturalised WA, NSW, ACT. Native of China.
Commonly cultivated for its edible fruits. Plants occasionally spreading into nearby bushland in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
