Flower Notes:
White (Pink bud opening to creamy-white flower clusters in early spring; fragrant with a spicy scent)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Attractive, shiny dark green summer foliage with impressed leaf veins; evergreen foliage)
Fruit Notes:
Red (Red fruit changing to glossy black in fall)
Soil Notes:
Prefers moist well-drained soils, but widely adapted
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Elliptic leaves are opposite, simple 2-4" long with a puckered texture, deeply incised veins, shiny dark green above, and white pubescence beneath. Buds are naked. Young stems are brown tomentose.
