Deciduous shrub up to 3 m high. Often with sprouts. The bark is irregulary stripped, stinks. Leaves are odd-pinnate, usually composed of 5 leaflets. Leaflets are elliptic with serrate margin. The flowers are in panicles, yelow-green. Flowering in April and May. The fruits are fleshy red drupes arranged in erected infruscentes. Shoots: Shoots are thick, slightly squared, cinnamon brown, hairy or hairless. Older branches are gray-brown with elongated eliptical black lenticels.The core is wide, cinnamon brown. Leaf-scars are cordate. Natural range: Central Europe; in our area domestic.