Flower Notes:
White (Not ornamentally important)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Dark, glossy green summer foliage); Multi-Colored (Almost fluorescent fall foliage changing from yellow to orange to scarlet to purple)
Fruit Notes:
Blue (Small blue-black drupes; up to .5" in diameter; attracts birds)
Soil Notes:
Perfers slightly acidic, moist, well-drained soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves are alternate, ovate to elliptic, 4-7.5" long and wide, entire margin, but sometimes remotely toothed, glossy (waxy) upper and dull on the lower surface. Leaves form on slow growing spurs. Three distinct vascular bundles in leaf scars. Buds are vari-colored. Chambered pith.
