Japanese snowball [Kilimanjaro]

A pyramidal shrub with spreading, layered branches clothed in tapered, deeply-veined dark green leaves which turn red-purple in autumn. Dense spherical white flowerheads, produced in abundance during late spring, age to pale pink and are followed by masses of deep red berries maturing to black. Additional flowers are borne in late summer. Winner of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year in 2015