Barry,
Sweetshrub (Calycanthos florida) makes a great garden plant if you are so inclined. It germinates easily from seed and stays in bounds. If you crumple up leaves, it emits a strawberry odour. Steve Springer ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barry Caselli Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 5:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Re: flowering shrub ID help That's the one, all right. I recognize it from memory. I can still smell it in my mind too. This link shows it present quite far north, yet absent in New Jersey and Delaware. How odd. http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CAFLG --- On Mon, 5/4/09, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: From: Barry Caselli <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: flowering shrub ID help To: [email protected] Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 3:29 PM Really? Wow. You knew that one right off. I'm impressed. I'll have to look it up and reminisce. Thanks, Barry --- On Mon, 5/4/09, Will Blozan <[email protected]> wrote: From: Will Blozan <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: flowering shrub ID help To: [email protected] Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 3:13 PM Calycanthus florida Will F. Blozan President, Eastern Native Tree Society President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of Barry Caselli Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 5:19 PM To: ENTS Subject: [ENTS] flowering shrub ID help ENTS, Okay, folks. This is going to be a difficult request, I should think, since I don't have photos to go on, only clues from memory (a description). In North Jersey , where I lived prior to March, 1985, there were some strange shrubs in the woods. They were not in the woods behind our house, but in the beech (beech/maple I guess) woods a few hundred yards further east. They had very dark red flowers that were kind of odd-looking, and had a very strong, very sweet and very fruity scent. Is this enough for anyone to go on? A few years ago I found out what they were, but I forgot to save the web page and photos, and so the shrub is lost to memory again. I'd really like to find out what these things were. Thanks for your help, Barry</table </table --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
