A very ornamental, deciduous shrub or small tree that prefers full sun to dappled shade. It bears dense clusters of lovely open faced white flowers in springtime and is often grown for this feature alone.
It also produces small, dark purple edible fruits that resemble crab apples in shape and are very attractive to birds, which will strip the whole season's growth before fully ripe if not protected by netting.
The foliage is silvery green at first, darkening in late and summer before turning to wonderful shades of orange, red and yellow in autumn providing the temperatures drop low enough.