Carolina Allspice Calycanthus

This deciduous shrub produces reddish brown fragrant blooms that have hints of pineapple strawberry and banana. Monrovia s carolina allspice details and information.

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Whether you can see them or not you ll enjoy the fruity fragrance when the maroon to rusty brown flowers bloom in mid spring. Aphrodite produces its large superbly fragrant strawberry scented magnolia like flowers in spring and again in summer to fall. Carolina allspice is a dense rounded shrub reaching 6 to 9 feet high. It has unusual strap like maroon to reddish brown flowers with a sweet banana strawberry fragrance.

Calycanthus floridus commonly called carolina allspice is a dense rounded deciduous shrub with a suckering habit which grows 6 9 less frequently to 12 tall with an equal or slightly greater spread. Learn more about monrovia plants and best practices for best possible plant performance. It will grow somewhat taller in shade than in sun. You don t often see carolina allspice shrubs calycanthus floridus in cultivated landscapes possibly because the flowers are usually hidden beneath the outer layer of foliage.

Carolina allspice also called sweetshrub and strawberry bush is native to the united states and easy to grow. Image by john b. The carolina allspice is a southeastern native shrub that provides fabulous fragrance and structure to the flower garden while asking little in return. Sweet shrub grows best in average medium well drained soil in full sun to part shade.

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