Solid shrub, easy, well suited for medium or mixed monospecific hedges, occultation.
A light pruning after flowering helps to round the shrub and keep it compact, and highlights the autumn fruiting.
Evergreen native shrub in China and Himalayas, forming large arched branches. The foliage, intermediate in size between C. franchetii and C. lacteus, is bluish-green with pruinous back. The summer flowering, white, is followed by red berries in autumn, appreciated by birds.