22+ Sweet Shrub Calycanthus Floridus

Its range includes the southern appalachians and piedmont. Calycanthus floridus is very resistant to disease and insect problems.

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Sweet shrub calycanthus floridus

Features very fragrant brown to reddish brown flowers 2 across which bloom at the ends of short branchlets in may. A new improved calycanthus with large bright red magnolia like flowers. Sweetshrub calycanthus floridus has many common names including carolina allspice strawberry bush sweet bubby sweet betsy and spicebush.

The plants database includes the following 2 subspecies of calycanthus floridus. The highly fragrant twigs leaves and flowers give rise to another common name of carolina allspice. Flowers in may june with reddish maroon flowers but some var.

Prune to shape after flowering. The eastern sweetshrub is a native shrub that reaches 6 to 9 feet in height. As these names indicate it is valued for the sweet often fruity fragrance of its flowers.

Have chartreuse flowers and some have white flowers. It has a prolific suckering habit adapts to many soils and grows taller in shaded places. Sweetshrub is native along the east coast from pennsylvania south to northern florida and west to mississippi.

Click below on a thumbnail map or name for subspecies profiles. A sweet apple like scent. Click below on a thumbnail map or name for subspecies profiles.

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