Tree or shrub up to 20 m tall with egglike wide crown. The bark is smooth, later lengthwise cracked. The bark is aromatic. Leaves are simple. Lamina is elliptic or lanceolate, leatherlike, on the underside scaterrely hairy (mainly by the main vein). The margin is serrulate, tips coiled to the lamina. Petiole is up to 2 cm long with 2 to 4 glands. The flowers are white, arranged in the thick cylindrical racemose. Flowering later than P. avium in May and June. The fruit is spherical drupe, up to 1 cm. At the beggining fruit pink to red, matured dark red to black. Stone is smooth. Shoots: Shoots are thin, glabrous, reddish-brown, with transversal lenticels, shiny. Natural range: Eastern part of the North America; in our area introduced.