 It is an evergreen shrub growing to tall, with stout, sparsely branched stems.The leaves are spirally-arranged, large, in width and on a petiole up to long, leathery, palmately lobed, with 7–9 broad lobes, divided to half or two-thirds of the way to the base of the leaf; the lobes are edged with coarse, blunt teeth.The flowers are small, white, borne in dense terminal compound umbels in late autumn or early winter, followed by small black fruit in spring.