Shrub or tree up to 15 m tall, with many branches and wide crown. Bark is smooth, later lengthwise cracked, black-brown. Lamina is obtuse (or seldom orbicular), shortly tipped. The margin is serrulate, the leaf front is dark green, glabrous and shiny. Base of the leaf is diamond or heart shaped. Periole is up to 2 cm long, may have up to 2 glands. The flowers are white, fragrant, in erected racemoses. Flowering at the same time with budbreaking in April to May. The fruit is spherical drupes in racemes, light brown color, dark red to black. The size of the fruit is 1 cm. Stone is yellowish brown, smooth. Shoots: Shoots are often overhanging, thin, round, yellowish gray, sticky. After grinding smells like coumarin. Natural range: South and Central Europe, north-west Africa, the Western Asia; in our area domestic.