Flower Notes:
Green (Not ornamentally important; dioecious; spring)
Foliage Notes:
Red-Violet (Expanding foliage is reddish-purple; leafs out early in the spring); Green (Bluish-green summer foliage); Orange (Distinctive foliage turns apricot (yellow to orange-red) in the fall)
Fruit Notes:
Brown (Pods that mature brown; not ornamentally important)
Soil Notes:
Fairly adaptable to soils and climates, except those that are very dry; does best in moist, well drained, slightly acidic soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Opposite (or sub-opposite) leaves are heart-shaped (2-4" long) with crenate-serrate margins, and produced on spurs. Leaf undersides are more whitish (glaucescent). Senescing leaves smell cinnamon-sweet. Reddish 2-scaled buds. Terminal bud absent. Nodes swollen.
