A good medium green summer color is followed by gold fall colors. Buds are profuse, and seem to have no pattern, appearing at random along the stubby shoots. Dark green color with an over shading of rusty red in the spring turns yellow and orange in the fall. It has great orange fall color. The feathery foliage could almost be classed dissectum, but the habit is not nearly so pendulous as the dissectums.
Mature trees are equally tall and broad.
Spring leaves open a brilliant red tone on gracefully held petioles, changing to green for summer and gold and crimson in the fall. This is the tree that I have chosen as the centerpiece of my rock garden. It has the very brightest clear-red spring color and holds that color for several weeks every spring. Short stubby twigs grow from short stubby branches, all covered with dense deep green foliage. This difficult to find tree turns an outstanding deep orange with yellow gold accents every fall, looking like a lions head for all to see.