Trees 5-20 m tall, deciduous, sometimes with spine-tipped branchlets. Young branchlets pubescent becoming glabrous. Leaf blade broadly ovate to sub-orbicular, 2-6 (-8) x 1.5-6 (-6.5) cm, base rounded to subcordate, apex abruptly short acuminate, margin crenulate or serrulate to sub-entire, white arachnoid pubescent when young, especially abaxially, becoming glabrous. Petioles 1.5-6(-7) cm long, sparsely pubescent when young becoming glabrous. Inflorescence corymbose, 5-11 flowered; pedicels 1.2-3.5 (-5) cm long, usually pubescent initially. Bracts linear-lanceolate, pubescent, usually caducous. Flowers white or pink; hypanthium 3-5 mm long, pubescent, occasionally glabrescent. Sepals ovate to lanceolate with acuminate apex, 3-8 x 2-4 mm, white tomentose on both surfaces. Petals 10-15 mm long and wide. Stamens ca. 20, filaments 5-8 mm long, anthers red to purple. Stylodia 5, shorter than stamens. Pomes pyriform to subglobose, 2-6 x 1.5-2 cm (often much larger in cultivated specimens), green to yellow or brown, sometimes tinged red, flesh juicy or woody with numerous sclereids, sepals persistent.