Single white flowers 6-10 inches across, usually have six thick petals that may be tinged with purple at base. Showy flowers fragrant, used for cutting. Trees grown from seed may not flower until 15-20 years old. It flowers May-June with single flowers blooming into early fall. Excellent as sheared evergreen hedge or espaliered specimen.
Tree is most attractive when lower limbs left to the ground to hide numerous fallen leaves and pods.
Occasional leaf spot and sun scald.