Deciduous tree , up to 15 meters high, glabrous, with milky juice, gray-black bark, with longitudinal cracks. Zhi Guangzhan. The leaves are alternate, rhomboid, rhombus-ovate, and pointed at the top. In autumn, they turn to red, orange, purple, brown, dark green or glaze green, and they may even have several colors per leaf. The flowers are unisexual, monoecious, clustered into terminal racemes , yellow-green fine spikes, and spit out in spring. The capsule is green, pear-shaped and spherical, black when mature, and split into three petals. Seeds are nearly circular and, outside the white waxy aril .
