E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

General:
Deciduous shrub or small tree up to 10 m tall with yellow- to brownish hairs, bark silvery-grey.

Leaves:
Alternate, egg-shaped to broadly elliptic, the blades 6-13 cm long, finely toothed with 10-12 conspicuous pairs of parallel veins, the veins short-hairy; stalks 5-23 mm long; stipules lacking.

Flowers:
Inflorescence an axillary, stalked cluster of 8-25 male and/or female flowers; petals 5, greenish, hooded, 3-4 mm long; hypanthium lined with a thin disc; calyces 5-lobed, the lobes triangular, finely hairy.

Fruits:
Berries, 6-10 mm long, black to purplish-black; seeds 3. vol4_6