An upright shrub or small tree usually growing 0.8-3 m tall. Its younger stems are green or purplish and densely covered is small star-shaped hairs. Its relatively large leaves (7.5-25 cm long) ave entire to shallowly-lobed margins and whitish undersides. Its white star-shaped flowers (about 25 mm across) are arranged in branched clusters containing 15-100 flowers. Its rounded berries (12-17 mm across) turn from green to yellow or yellowish-green as they mature.