Asian Spindle Tree

Description

Shrub reaching 4m in height; leaves to 12cm, obovate, short-acuminate, cuneate, crenate-serrate, petiole flat, to 10mm. Cymes loose, small, few-flowered; peduncles slender to 7cm, flowers 5-merous, purple or dark red; fruit 5-angled, to 18mm wide, carmine red with orange aril.