P. ailanthioides) is a species of Picrasma native to temperate regions of southern Asia, from the northeast of Pakistan east along the Himalaya and through East Asia from southern, central and eastern China to Taiwan, Japan and Korea.

[1][2][3] It is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 10–15 m (rarely 20 m) tall with a trunk up to 50 cm diameter.

The flowers are green to yellow-green with four or five sepals and petals, produced in cymes 8–15 cm long in mid to late spring.

The fruit is an ovoid to globose, red to black drupe 6–7 mm diameter.

It is occasionally grown as an ornamental tree in Europe and North America, valued for its bright orange to red autumn colour.