Carolina Allspice

Other names

Pineapple Shrub, Strawberry Shrub, Common Sweetshrub

Growth habit

Shrub

Perennation

Perennial

Location

Zucker Shrub Collection

Source of plant

Roslyn Nursery, Broken Arrow Nursery

Description

Flowers dark reddish brown, 2" across, with very fruity fragrance, borne in May and sporadically into July; flowers on both old and new wood. Plants 6'tall; leaves lustrous dark green. All parts, and particularly the wood when dry exude a camphor-like fragrance.

USDA Hardiness Zone

4

Special characteristics

fragrance