The wood is moderately important as it is very heavy, hard and fine-grained.
Birds frequently eat the flower buds during winter, affecting the blooming the following spring.
Songbirds, squirrels, raccoons and small mammals eat the fruits and white-tailed deer browse the leaves, twigs and especially the new growth. It is a dependable, attractive and adaptable tree, excellent for use as a specimen, massed in groups or planted at the corners of buildings.