This shrub ("cherry silverberry" or "goumi" in Japanese) is closely related to umbellata but differs in its much larger fruit, longer pedicels, larger flowers but relatively short hypanthium (?), and perhaps broader leaves (FNA 10, W). Some data in FNA 10 appear to be inaccurate; leaf blades may be mostly 5-8 x 2-3 cm (versus 4- 7 x 1.5-2.5 cm in umbellata). E. multiflora has occasionally been planted in Ky. after 1970 for so-called reclamation or for "wildlife" (with even human use of its fruits), especially in Appalachian regions, but there is no certain record of self-sown plants (M). Naturalized populations have been reported from scattered sites in Tenn. (D. Estes, pers. comm.) and perhaps other eastern states (K, W).