Flowers:
Yellow (Small, inconspicuous greenish-yellow flowers)
Foliage:
Green (Blue-green summer foliage); Multi-Colored (Outstanding red, orange, yellow, or reddish-purple fall foliage)
Fruit:
Pink (Smoky pink to purplish-pink, hairy fruiting panicles give the "smoke-effect"; the actual fruits are small and insignificant)
Soil:
Very adaptable to soils and pH; tolerates limestone soils and some drought
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Alternate, simple, quite oval leaves (2-5" long by 1-2.5" wide), with rounded to notched apex, and parallel veination. Lobed leaf scar (this can vary). Orange stems are glabrous with a number of small lenticels.
