Height: 15 - 20 m
Leave: opposite, 15 - 20 cm long, up to about 28 cm wide, ovate, leaf
surface woolly
Bloom: purple-pink, inside, yellow striped panicles, Apri l-May
Fruit: Fruit capsule
Branches: thick, sparkling with leaf scars
Bark: Brau cracked slightly
Root: Deep-rooting
Location: Protected as Sensitive to cold
Soil: sandy to loamy
ph-value:
Note: strong tendency to extreme self-seeded growth happiness of
the seedlings (> 2 m in 1st year!)