Flower Notes:
Yellow (Yellow flowers (0.3" dia.) are not especially effective)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Late leafing, medium blue-green in summer); Multi-Colored (Variations of yellow, orange, red, or purple fall foliage)
Fruit Notes:
Cream (Creamy, smoky yellowish to pink-purple fruiting panicles (6-8" long and wide) effective due to long hairs on pedicels and peduncles through summer)
Soil Notes:
Very adaptable to soils and pH and tolerates some drought
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Alternate, simple, quite oval leaves (1.5-3.5" long) have parallel veination. Purplish coloration around leaf scar. Crushed stems have strong odor. Stems are glabrous with a number of small lenticels.