The specific epithet lancifolium refers to the lance shaped leaves.
Soon the distinctively shaped leaves will turn maroon and start to drop.
As a juvenile plant S. heterophyllus has distinctive fiddle shaped leaves.
Having pale twigs, similar shaped opposite leaves with a stem around 2 cm long.
It has tiny wedge shaped leaves, and paper-like bark on the stems.
They grow 1-2 inch long heart shaped leaves with a few scattered hairs.
On the top of the caudex emerge some vine-like stems with green round shaped leaves.
The tree was in full glory, because it still had its elegantly shaped leaves, which could shelter the whole group.
The variously shaped leaves are up to 8 centimeters long.
THE first sign of trouble is an oddly shaped leaf.