- Boasts untypical time of blooming.
- Grows into a shrub with stiffly erected stems developing an erect habit, reaches up to 3.0 m high.
- Develops coarse green leaves .
- Its inflorescences appear on tops of sprouts, they are cream white and make cone-like, loose panicles consisting of fertile and sterile flowers .
- Commences blooming in the second half of September and flowers till the late autumn frosts; becomes most ornamental in its peak of blooming in October.
- Prefers sunny or slightly shaded positions, and humus and acidic to neutral soils .
- Looks best in large clusters.
- Cold hardy.
