Flowers:
Green (Tri-monoecious (male, female, and bisexual flowers); not ornamentally important)
Foliage:
Green (Deep green foliage in the summer); Red (Wine to rusty-red fall foliage)
Fruit:
Brown (Drupes; not ornamentally important)
Soil:
Widely adapted to soils, including those with a high pH; prefers well-drained, moist, fertile soil
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves simple, alternate, ovate to oblong-ovate, 1.3-2" long (and longer), sharply serrate with acuminate teeth, dark green and somewhat rough above. Offset (oblique) at leaf base. The straight trunk has smooth gray bark when young, exfoliating to reveal orange and brown inner bark at maturity.