An evergreen tree, which can reach over 15 meters in height with a breast height diameter of up to more than 60 centimeters; the bark is gray and develops shallow longitudinal cracks when old; the crown is globular. Fruits become edible after five years and relatively tasty around ten years. Branchlets and buds are glabrous, usually having few inconspicuous lenticels. When young, they are only covered by round and shield-shaped glands. Leaves are leathery and glabrous, falling off after two years of life, often densely packed at the upper part of branchlets; those growing on sprouting branches are long-elliptical or wedge-shaped lanceolate, over 16 centimeters in length, with an apex that tapers gradually or sharply, and edges above the middle with sparse sharp serrations, while below the middle are usually entire, with a wedge-shaped base. Those growing on fertile branches are wedge-shaped inverted ovate or long elliptical inverted ovate, 5-14 centimeters long and 1-4 centimeters wide, with a rounded or short-pointed to acute apex, wedge-shaped base, entire margin or occasionally with a few sharp serrations above the middle. The upper surface is deep green and glossy, while the lower surface is light green and glabrous, only sparsely dotted with golden-yellow glands. When dried, both surfaces show prominent midribs and lateral veins, especially more raised on the underside. Leaf petioles are 2-10 millimeters long. Flowers are dioecious. Male catkins grow singly or in clusters in the leaf axils, cylindrical in shape, 1-3 centimeters long, usually unbranched and single-spiked, rarely showing extremely short branching at the base. The basal bracts are infertile, while the fertile bracts are nearly round, entire, glabrous on the back, only dotted with glands, about 1 millimeter long, with one male flower growing in the axil of each bract. Male flowers have 2-4 ovate small bracts and 4-6 stamens; anthers are elliptical, dark red, and glabrous. Female catkins commonly grow singly in the leaf axils, shorter and thinner than male catkins, 5-15 millimeters long, with bracts similar to those of male flowers, closely arranged like tiles. One female flower grows in the axil of each bract. Female flowers usually have 4 ovate small bracts; the ovary is ovate, very small, glabrous, with a very short style and 2 fresh red, fine and long stigmas, whose inner side has papillate stigma surfaces. Only the uppermost 1 (rarely 2) female flowers on each female catkin can develop into fruit. The drupe is spherical, with papillate projections on the outer surface, with a diameter of 1-1.5 centimeters, and cultivated varieties can reach about 3 centimeters. The exocarp is fleshy, juicy, and resinous, with a sour-sweet taste, turning deep red or purple-red when ripe. The stone is usually broad elliptical or ovoid, slightly flattened, 1-1.5 centimeters long and 1-1.2 centimeters wide, with a very hard woody endocarp. Flowers bloom in April, and fruits ripen from June to July. Source: yangmei.xjwx.com Related thematic articles: Xianju Waxberry, Dongkui Introduction, Xianju Waxberry, Late Rice Waxberry Introduction