- A columnar variety, slow-growing, grows to about 6 m in height and 2 m in width.
- Heart-shaped leaves, initially brownish in spring, later green – in autumn they turn yellow.
- Flowers gathered in capitate inflorescences (diameter approx. 3 cm), while the stamens are dark purple. Two decorative bracts (leaves appearing under the inflorescence) are snow-white, long (up to 14 cm), usually one is always shorter.
- It blooms at the turn of May and June, abundantly. The tree looks as if hung with white handkerchiefs.
- After flowering, green, oval fruits appear, hanging from the branches on long, orange peduncles.
- In the first years of cultivation, protect the seedlings from frost.
