I've only seen this species from the woodland slopes of China once, and that was several shrubs planted in a big parking lot island in the front parking lot of Longwood Gardens in southeast Pennsylvania. It is a very pretty, neat, clean plant. Shiny, handsome lanceolate leaves that turn a good yellow to red fall color. The leaves are supposed to hang onto the shrub deep into the winter, as sort of a gray-beige color, that I don't think I would like. The shiny black berries are nice looking, but I would worry that some kind of bird might eat them and spread around a new east Asian invasive plant.

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