Continue walking up path leading to upper garden. Across from entrance to cultivar garden in upper garden. Small deciduous tree to large shrub growing 10 to 20 feet tall with an equal spread or perhaps slightly wider. Normally seen as multistemmed from base. Bark is light grayish color.
Leaves are reniform and emarginate.
This means that they are kidney shaped with a notch in the apex. More simply stated, the leaves look almost bilobed. Leaves are approximately 3 inches in length, green in summer and turn yellow to red in fall. Half inch flowers are borne in axils of leaves, before foliage, and are red to magenta in color. Showy in flower.