Phytolacca acinosa

While we're on the subject of Phytolaccas, can anyone enlighten me on this one? A friend's just given me a small plant of it - but I'm suspicious. ('Beware of friends bearing gifts, particularly of plants'? Well, sometimes. Don't we all sometimes pass on not our treasures but our swans which turned out to be geese?)
 
Soon, presumably, however, this will become a distinctly *large* plant? In which case, how does it compare as a garden plant to P. americanum? Better? Poorer? Less eye-catching, presumably - but in a good or bad sense? Ie, is it just dull?! (What colour are its 'berries,' by the way?)
 
Is it, finally, worth its space? Or only if you have almost infinite quantities of same (which I don't)?
 
No, not finally. What about its preference for conditions? Similar to P. am.?
 
Thanks in advance for any help.
Tim
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