19+ Calycanthus Occidentalis Spicebush

Rounded deciduous shrub with erect multiple dark brown stems and leathery dark green leaves that have a spicy aromatic fragrance. Bright green aromatic foliage with interesting maroon red flowers in spring summer that resemble small waterlilies and have a wine like fragrance.

Spicebush From The West Side Of North America Brewing Up An Aroma

Calycanthus occidentalis spicebush

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. This product is currently out of stock and unavailable. Calycanthus occidentalis western spice bush has large leaves and wine scented flowers.

Flowers are solitary and large reaching 2 3 in 5 8 cm with multiple dark red to purplish petals. This year i ve been avidly monitoring the buds each week trying to predict when they will open. This deciduous shrub to multi stemmed small tree grows to 8 tall and 8 wide in an erect dense rounded form.

Description additional information description western spicebush. Also found in washington state localized in the seattle area. Calycanthus occidentalis a dicot is a shrub that is native to california and is endemic limited to california.

This attractive deciduous shrub is well worth growing. Calycanthus occidentalis commonly known as california sweetshrub or california spicebush is a large upright rounded thicket forming multi stemmed suckering deciduous shrub which features fragrant some suggest the aroma of a wine cellar dark red to purplish brown thin tepaled. Native along streams rivers and moist places in california.

Calycanthus occidentalis or western spicebush blends into the background of the garden until the rosy buds form and swell in may and its unique solitary blooms begin unfurling in june. Calycanthus occidentalis western spicebush dec z8 wna fra cut this handsome medium large shrub 4 12 with dense habit spicily aromatic leaves and unusual maroon red flowers has long been a garden favorite like its sister the eastern sweetshrub.

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