Size: vine, 30' on average at maturity
Buds: reddish-brown, imbricate, pubescent, .125" long
Leaves: deciduous, opposite, 2-4" long, coarsely serrate, dark green
Twigs: first-year growth red-brown, develops root-like holdfasts in second year, large inverted-triangular leaf scars
Flowers: monoecious, 8-10" wide in mid-summer, individual, 1-1.33" long, ovate, entire sepals
Fruit: capsule
Bark: exfoliates with age
