Suited for wet areas. Fruit capsules are used by some songbirds. Large, robust evergreen shrub, becomes open with age. Requires moist, well-drained soils in full sun or shade. Use in mass in shady borders.
Mammals eat foliage and twigs.
Utilized extensively by mammals and bird for winter shelter. Has cream colored, fragrant, flower in late spring-early summer. Fruit is a cluster of red seeds. Likes wet, acid soils. Used as specimen tree.