A large shrub or small tree with stiff, stout, rigid branching.  Grows 15-20' tall making it an excellent ornamental tree when the lower branches are removed.  Splended long, lustrous, green foliage up to 6" long with a distinct scent (bacon-like) when crushed.  Lemon scented flowers in white flat-topped cymes in May, all perfect, and in great abundance, often masking the foliage.  Fruit starts pink, then rose-red and finally changing to black and held on red pedicles which remain effective 2 to 4 weeks after the fruit has been devoured by the birds.  Zone 4