*Native in Honshu (Tokaido and westward), Shikoku and Kyushu.
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*Distributed in China, Burma and Thailand.
===Flowering season===
===Flowering season===
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*Under investigation
===Notes===
===Notes===
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*A small evergreen tree of the rose family, Rosaceae.
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*Bark is dark brown and reticulate.
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*Lobes leathery, oblong-ovate to narrowly ovate or narrowly obovate, acute or acuminate. Leaf margins lined with fine serrations from base to tip. New leaves reddish.
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*Fruit red.
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*At the Higashi-Hiroshima Campus, those trees are planted as hedges everywhere.
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*In recent years, the cultivar ''Photinia'' ×''fraseri'' W.J.Dress 'Red Robin', which is a cross between this species and ''Photinia serratifolia'' (Desf.) Kalkman, has been planted.