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Excellent purple-red autumn foliage. Beautiful grey-brown bark peeling off into yellow plates. Small downy brown flowers with red stamens in February-March before the leaves appear and followed by small inconspicuous belobed fruits. Spreading growth habit, wider than it is tall when mature. It will grow in not too dry, drained and not too calcareous soils. Genus dedicated to F.W. Parrot, professor of surgery and naturalist from Kalsruhe, who discovered the tree during the first ascent of Mount Ararat (where Noah's Ark would have landed after the flood).