25+ Calycanthus Praecox Calicanto

Suckering fast spreading stiffly branched plant to 610 feet tall and as wide or wider. Native from virginia to florida.

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Calycanthus praecox calicanto

They are dark green yellow in autumn with smooth margins. Praecox luteus have gained the royal horticultural society s award of garden merit. Calicanti are medium sized deciduous shrubs originating in china.

Leaves are oval to 5 inches glossy dark green above grayish green beneath. It s one of the best flowering shrubs for chalky soil. In mid late winter a profusion of small highly fragrant bowl shaped flowers with almost transparent greenish yellow outer petals and short reddish purple inner tepals appear on the naked branches.

Turn yellow in fall. The plant is unrelated to allspice pimenta dioica and not only is the japanese allspice inedible but its seeds contains a toxic alkaloid called calycanthine. Calycanthus praecox has a variety of names including chimonanthus praacox and chimonanthus fragrans both synonyms but its best known by the name wintersweet which comes from its highly fragranced winter flowers.

In winter fragrant bell shaped flowers bloom on bare branches. Praecox grandiflorus and c. It is a deciduous shrub with upright habit up to 4 meters high.

In fact the common name refers to a plant belonging to the genus of calycanthacee but whose species is called chimonanthus. The species of chimonanthus existing in nature are few and in particular only one chimonanthus praecox is grown in italy. Its leaves are opposite oval lanceolate rough on the upper side and smooth on the lower side.

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