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Spicebush is a deciduous shrub growing to 1.8–3.7 metres (6–12 ft) tall. [6] It has a colonial nature and often reproduces by root sprouting, forming clumps or thickets. [ 7 ] The leaves are alternately arranged on the stem, simple, 6–15 cm (2–6 in) long and 2–6 cm (1–2 in) broad, oval or broadest beyond the middle of the leaf.
The scheme is one of a number developed by Biodiversity Information Standards particularly aimed at taxonomic databases. [2] The starting point was the "need for an agreed system of geographical units at approximately 'country' level and upwards for use in recording plant distributions". [1]
Lindera obtusiloba, the blunt-lobed spice bush, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family Lauraceae, native to China, Korea and Japan.It is a spreading deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 6 m (20 ft) tall and wide, with glossy aromatic leaves and deep yellow flowers which appear in spring before the leaves. [1]
Dried fruits of Lindera neesiana used as spice (coll.MHNT) Lindera is a genus of about 80–100 [1] species of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae, mostly native to eastern Asia but with three species in eastern North America.
Spicebush (Lindera benzoin), a shrub that is native to the eastern half of the United States, has white, yellow, and green flowers that also provide nectar to pollinators during the spring. L. benzoin hosts the caterpillars of the spicebush swallowtail and eastern tiger swallowtail butterflies and the promethea silkmoth. [25]
Lindera subcoriacea, the bog spicebush, is a plant species native to the southeastern United States from Louisiana to Virginia. It is a shrub that can reach up to 4 metres (13 ft) in height. Leaves are broadly elliptic, up to 8 cm (3.2 inches) long, and faintly aromatic when young. Flowers are yellow.
Labeled as "ex-burbs," these areas are usually 40-60 miles away from major metropolitan cities and can offer more peaceful ways of life and "affordable housing" options.
Calycanthus floridus L.—Carolina spicebush, eastern sweetshrub, native to the Eastern United States, from New York and Missouri, south through the Appalachian Mountains, Piedmont, and Mississippi Valley, to Louisiana, and east to northern Florida [16] C. f. var. floridus (syn. C. mohrii)—eastern sweetshrub; twigs pubescent (hairy) [17]