Fall color is exceptional (even in the South) but brief, as the leaves fall quickly. Habit is "gawky" and "very open" in youth (I personally think it looks terrible) but fills out and becomes "denser" and "well proportioned" with age.
Robert Kourik, in The Tree and Shrub Finder, writes that it blocks on average 81% of sunlight in leaf and 37% when bare, which is fairly good but not as good as, say, Liquidambar or Liriodendron.
Legendarily adaptable and trouble-free. May be slow to establish. Water and fertilizer may speed growth once established, if soil is well-drained.
Plant only males, as females bear unfathomably malodorous fruit.
JerseyYards.org and Missouri BG assert clay tolerance, and UFL asserts tolerance of compacted soils.
'Golden Globe' is fuller in youth and is reportedly faster-growing. 'The President' (Presidential Gold) is also fuller and better-looking in youth than most.
Sources: UFL, Sunset, Stoecklein, Missouri BG, JerseyYards.org, UConn, USDA, Dirr/Warren.
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