“Serves well as a large, unpruned, natural screen, but may be sheared to produce a more compact hedge. Very good as a specimen shrub or small shade tree, or when situated in a mixed shrub bed. Excellent for difficult areas such as parking lots, road and powerline rights-of-way, and highway medians.Florida’s Best Native Landscape Plants 200 Readily Available Species for Homeowners and Professionals, by Gil Nelson, 2003, University Press of Florida, Page 390