I remember this tree being used occasionally in the 1970's & 80's the most. I remember one person propagating some by putting cut stems into old coke bottles full of water to root. I remember several places that had some trees about 30 feet high in the mid-1980's in the west suburbs of Chicago. Many of them at that older age of being about 25 or 30 years old and that size were dying off from canker disease. I don't recommend this fast growing tree that is contorted as being a good ornamental because of its weak wood, dirtiness of fallen twigs, and dying off in that humid region of canker disease after about 20 to 30 years. I finally saw one again in June of 2021 while visiting relatives in Des Plaines, IL. I have seen a very few in the Philadelphia, PA region. I think that cheap mail order nurseries are still offering them in the Midwest and East US. This tree is from China.

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