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Calycanthus floridus


 

Calycanthus floridus
Common sweetshrub

Olive-green and turning brown with a slight lavender cast, the stems are quite pleasantly fragrant when bruised or scratched. The stems are distinctly widened at the nodes and laterally compressed or flattened. The widened nodes include raised "U"-shaped leaf scars.

 
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