| General Description | An excellent plant for screening and informal hedging. Often used for defining boundaries between houses and to create a good privacy screen, yet at the same time offers a white flower, red fruit and dark green foliage. |
| ID Characteristic | Leaves are a simple 3-lobed, broad-ovate, 4-10 cm. long. Used for screening and informal hedging. It becomes too large for a small landscape environment. |
| Shape | Mounding. |
| Landscape | Bailey Compact becomes too large for the small landscape reaching a size of 1.5 x 1.5 m. An excellent plant for screening and informal hedging. Often used to create privacy or define boundaries between houses. |
| Propagation | Requires warm/cold routine, but cuttings are easy to root. |
| Cultivation | Easy to grow in good, well drained garden soil in fall sun to light shade. |
| Pests | In warm humid areas stem blight can kill the plant. |
| Habitat | Horticultural origin. |
| Bark/Stem Description | Light grey and unassuming since it is covered or hidden by foliage. |
| Flower/Leaf Bud Description | Smooth, green-reddish, sometimes sticky with 2 connate outer scales. |
| Leaf Description | Leave are simple, 3-lobed and 4-10 cm long. Sometimes the middle lobe is elongated and leave are dark green. Brilliant yellow-orange autumn colour. |
| Flower Description | Flowers are 6-9 cm. in diameter and are a flat-topped cyme; extremely handsome white colour, but rare on young plants and sparse on mature ones. |
| Fruit Description | The fruit is a bright red drupe, mature in early September. It is edible and used for preserves and jellies but is rare in occurrence. |
| Colour Description | Medium to dark green and changes to yellow or red-purple in the autumn. New growth has a reddish tinge, especially around the leaf margins. |
| Texture Description | Medium in foilage and medium to course in the winter. |
