Description
Medium-sized, bushy, broad, deciduous tree (H 8-12 m, W 5-7 m). Leaves very large (15-25 cm), broadly ovate to heart-shaped, deeply palmately lobed (3-5 leaflets), rough, light green. Male and female flowers separate, light green, tiny. Fruits fleshy, elongate cylindric to egg-shaped (up to 2 cm), resembling raspberries, white, light pink, pink-red to dark violet-red. Requires sunny, warm, sheltered positions and sufficiently drained, poor, calcareous soils.