Narrowly conical tree to 10 m or so tall. Leaves mostly 9-12 cm long and wide, lobes 5(7) cut more than halfway into the leaf and each lobe with 2 secondary lobes on the margin; margin toothed; autumn colouring yellow, to red and purple. Leaf stalk 5-8 cm long. Flowers in round heads, insignificant in late winter, opening with the leaves late August. Fruit about 2 cm wide.

Turkey, W Asia

Source of Levant storax, the Balm of Gilead of the Bible.

VIC: Dandenongs ('Pirianda' about 13 m tall in 1984); Melbourne (Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (Melbourne Gardens), Central Lawn above the Bulb Bed, about 6 m in 1987).

Source: Spencer, R. (1997). Hamamelidaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.