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sweet shrub

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sweet shrub
n.
Any of several North American deciduous shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, having opposite leaves, fragrant reddish-brown flowers, and many dry fruits enclosed in a cup.
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Noun1.sweet shrub - hardy shrub of southeastern United States having clove-scented wood and fragrant red-brown flowerssweet shrub - hardy shrub of southeastern United States having clove-scented wood and fragrant red-brown flowers
Calycanthus floridus, Carolina allspice, strawberry shrub, strawberry bush
allspice - deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States
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Offering new compact sizes, a range of flower colors, and a glorious parade of display are azaleas, rhododendrons, sweet shrub (Calycanthus), quince, shrubby dogwoods, daphne mezereum (why, oh why is this early flowering neat shrub not used more?
Mix up selection of spring flowers by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
After exploring for another seventy miles, Bartram wrote "spacious groves of this fine flowering tree, which must, in the spring season, when covered with blossoms, present a most pleasing scene; when at the same time a variety of other sweet shrubs display their beauty.
Flowering Dogwood Trees A Favorite Tree of America by Pat Malcolm / Home improvement and landscaping community
For sweet shrubs, look to the evergreen, pale pink flowered Daphne x burkwoodii `Somerset'; silver-grey leaved Cytisus battandierii, with pineapple-scented yellow `candles', though it needs a warm, sheltered position; and climbers like Clematis recta and, later in summer Clematis flammula, the `virgin's bower', both smothered with small white flowers.
By any other name, it should smell as sweet by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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