Description
Medium-sized, upright, broadly growing, deciduous ornamental tree (H 8-14 m, W 8-10 m). Bark grey-brown, lightly fissured. Branches thorny. Leaves broadly ovate (4-10 cm), smooth, glossy, dark green, autumn colour red to dark violet-red. Flowers numerous, in umbels, simple, cup-shaped (2 cm), white. Flowering period: April-May. Fruits globose (up to 1 cm), hard, grey-brown. Attracts bees, butterflies and birds. Requires limy soils, otherwise easy to grow species, withstands also urban conditoins.