Botanical Name: Calycanthus floridus
Common Name: sweet shrub
Family: Calycanthaceae
Distribution/Origin: North America
Leaf/Bud: bloom April - August, pink flowers, simple, opposite, ovate, entire margin
Flower/Inflorescence: red tepals, bloom May - June, fragrant
Fruit/Seed: elliptic capsule
Stem/Bark: fragrant bark; similar to eucalyptus (when scraped), light brown bark, prominent lenticels
Size: height 2 - 4.5 m, spread 2 - 6m
Habit: clumping, upright
Form: mounding, dense
Culture: full sun - partial shade, well-drained soil
Landscape Use: shrub
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