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calycanthus
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calycanthus (kăl'ĭkăn`thəs), any plant of the genus Calycanthus, aromatic shrubs of N North America, Asia, and Australia. An American type, the Carolina allspice, is cultivated for the aromatic fragrance of its flowers. Calycanthus is classified in the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta , division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
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, class Magnoliopsida, order Magnoliales, family Calycanthaceae.
calycanthus
symbol of compassion. [Plant Symbolism: Jobes, 279]
See : Kindness


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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?
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.
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.
 
 
 
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