A very popular ornamental sycamore, Brilliantissimum has the most amazingly coloured foliage.  The colour of the leaves are as follows; initially, the foliage is a gentle light pink colour, this maturing to yellow and finally green.  In spring, Brilliantissimum bears small clumps of greeny-yellow flowers.  Quite a spreading tree, this tree makes an attractive tree in any garden.  In particular, given its final height of 4m (13ft 4in), this tree would be well-suited in a small, sunny garden.  From a maintenance angle, this is a slow-growing tree, so its final height will take some time to be attained.

Brilliantissimum is supplied at a height of 1.5m and 1.7 metres in a 12L container, which means that the tree has an already established root system and therefore this tree can be planted any time of the year and with better results than either bare-root or rootballed trees.

This is a grafted ornamental tree which means the main stem of the tree is an Acer Pseudoplatanus and the head is a Brilliantissimum. This gives it a "mophead" or "lolly pop" shape which is considered very ornamental.