[1] Styrax redivivus is a deciduous shrub, usually 1–3 m tall, with alternate roundish softly hairy leaves that are 2–7 cm long and nearly as wide.

The numerous white flowers are borne in small showy clusters at the tips of the twigs.

They are 12–18 mm long with the petals joined only near the base, commonly 6 in number but ranging from 4 to 8.

In the Sierra Nevada it is a shrub of lower elevations below 3000 feet on the western slopes from Tulare County north.

It occurs in chaparral, foothills, woodland and yellow pine forest, usually in open rocky areas.