DESCRIPTION: An attractive ornamental shrub or small tree with smooth, peeling bark. Showy, ruffled, fiery red summer flowers are followed by vibrant orange-red fall foliage. An excellent choice as a specimen plant, or en masse for an explosion of color in the landscape and year-round interest. Deciduous.
LIGHT: Full sun
WATERING: Water deeply when soil is dry.
BLOOMS: Summer
MATURE SIZE: Moderate growing; reaches 15 to 20 ft. tall, 10 to 15 ft. wide.