Commonly sold dried/preserved in grocery stores, usually with sugar coated on them. In dried form, these can be a bit sour, but are very sweet and have an extremely interesting texture. It easily falls apart, but still is quite firm.

Chinese BayBerry cannot last long fresh, but is very good. Each fruit is made up of many smaller "pieces" and crumbles easily. The fruits are very juicy, and when bruised may get coated with the juice. Fresh fruits are very sweet, rarely very sour. Ripe fruits are maroon-red or nearly black.

There are 3 or so varieties, 1 yellow-white in color, 1 pink in color. I will add them if I can find them specifically online.

The seeds can be germinated after cold-stratification, though it has been reported that sometimes they can sprout after 3 months or so after planting (without stratification).

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