The main branches are rigid and almost horizontal. The leaves on this small tree are alternate and simple. There are sharply serrate except at the base, and the tip is rounded. The upper surface of the leaves is lustrous, dark green, and the lower surface is paler. The fruit is greenish to dull red with a slightly hazy surface. This tree has small, spherical fruit that turn read in the fall and persist on the tree into the winter. Although this species of hawthorne usually has thorns on the branches, this ornamental variety is thornless. The trunk of the mature tree will be fissured and dark brown. The ridges are usually scaly and short, and often peel.