25+ Calycanthus Spice Bush

Native along streams rivers and moist places in california. Calycanthus species carolina allspice eastern sweetshrub florida spice bush strawberry shrub calycanthus floridus.

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Calycanthus spice bush

Can be grown as a multi stemmed small. It will grow somewhat taller in shade than in sun. Also found in washington state localized in the seattle area.

Calycanthus floridus commonly called carolina allspice is a dense rounded deciduous shrub with a suckering habit which grows 5 6 tall with an equal or slightly greater spread. Sweet bush calycanthus occidentalis grows wild along the creeks of the sierra nevada foothills. Spice bush calycanthus occidentalis is a native shrub that grows in canyons streamsides and moist places at elevations from 0 5000 feet in the california coast ranges sacramento valley sierra nevada and cascade ranges.

41 more photos view gallery. Main means of propagation is transplanting suckers. Sweet shrub grows best in average medium well drained soil in full sun to part shade.

Spicebush has fragrant burgundy flowers april aug that smells kind of like a delicate red wine if there is such a thing. Bright green aromatic foliage with interesting maroon red flowers in spring summer that resemble small waterlilies and have a wine like fragrance. The blooms are very aromatic and the plant is very hardy.

Native to the mountains of central and northern california. Plants in the genus calycanthus are commonly called sweetshrub or strawberry bush in reference to the fragrant blooms which are often described as combining hints of pineapple strawberry and banana. My neighbors and i have transplanted it into our yards as shrubs.

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