Flower Notes:
White (Malodorous flowers in 3-4" dia. flat-topped cymes with a ring of showy sterile flowers surrounding a center of inconspicuous fertile flowers; May)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Lustrous, leathery summer foliage); Multi-Colored (Various yellow and red fall colors)
Fruit Notes:
Red (Beautiful glossy, glowing scarlet-red drupes (berries) appearing in August and persisting into fall)
Soil Notes:
Adaptable to various soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
The glossy, thick, leathery leaves (up to 5.5" long) are opposite, simple, and 3-lobed with the long central lobe measuring more than half the length of the entire leaf). Large disk-like glands are present on the pink- or red-tinged petiole. Trunk and branches covered with a corky bark.