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'Fugenzo' always looks healthy and makes a spreading tree with a flattened crown. On a favorable soil, specimens may reach up to 15 m in about fifty years. Trees show a typical, repeated bifurcation in the branches so that in the crown they often have the habit of growing crosswise. Care should be taken to raise the young tree on a single stem; left to itself, it mostly makes a double stem that will make the tree unbalanced and susceptible to storm damage at a later age. 'Fugenzo' is easily identified by (1) the characteristically forked branching with interlocking boughs higher up in the tree, (2) its open, flat flowers that show in the heart two or three phylloid pistils with occasionally a few small, erect petals in between, and (3) the dark, purplish, and large sepals with their typical serration.
Figure 106 'Fugenzo' flowers turn red before fading. Photo by Arie Peterse, 22 May 1986.