sentences:  In fall, they turn to shades of yellow, tinged with red.The flowers are produced in loose, drooping, few-flowered racemes up to long in early spring shortly before the leaves appear; they are yellow to greenish-yellow, with five or six tepals.It is usually dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate trees; male flowers have nine stamens, female flowers with six staminodes (aborted stamens) and a 2–3 mm style on a superior ovary.