Photinia villosa

Oriental photinia or Christmas berry is in the rose or Rosaceae family and is a shrub or small tree native to Japan, China and Korea. It typically matures to 4.5 m tall and as wide, with an irregular oval crown.

• Leaves are deciduous, simple, alternate, sharply serrate, elliptic to obovate, 3.7–8.7 cm long and 2–3.7 cm across, dark green above and villous (hairy) below, apex drawn out to a fine point. Each marginal serration is gland tipped. Leaves emerge with bronze tints in spring (April), mature to dark green by summer and finally produce excellent yellow, orange and red color in fall.
• Flowers are 5-petaled, white, 1.1 cm across, in corymbs 2.5 cm long and 3.7 cm across; stalks are conspicuously warted; blooming is in April-May.
• Fruit is a roundish, red pome which ripens in fall but persist on the tree well into winter (hence the common name of Christmas berry).