It blooms in spring and has bright yellow flowers and red fruits in summer.

[2] The plant is also known in English as masuri berry, tanner's tree, or mansur shrub.

Flowers, yellow in colour, are in groups (inflorescences) and they are male or female but in the same plant.

[4] C. nepalensis grows on the southern slopes of the Himalayas (in Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan), usually between 800 and 2500 metres.

It has been found in the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hong Kong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, and Yunnan.