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Plants that flower on current season's growth -- Common sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus) is a native plant that flowers on both current growth and that from the previous season.
Knowing when to prune is crucial for dependable flower blossoms Joel M. Lerner 2010
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I find that my usual spring scents - Mitsouko, Calycanthus, The Unicorn Spell - are all taking a back-seat to Manoumalia.
Top 10 of Spring and a Prize Draw Marina Geigert 2009
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Purchased at the festival to come live at the Fairegarden and kindly brought to the car by golf cart when we were ready to leave were a deciduous azalea, R. prunifolium, Calycanthus ‘Venus’ and Stachys monnieri ‘Hummelo’.
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The sweet-scented shrub (_Calycanthus_) (Fig. 100, _G_) is the only member of the family _Calycanthaceæ_ found within our limits.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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Why did you crinkle up your eyes when I told you that as yet unbotanised flower was a _Calycanthus arithmelicus_?
The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918
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Carolina allspice, sweet-scented shrub, _Calycanthus floridus.
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Bouvardias strike better so than from cuttings of their shoots; and so does the sweet-scented shrub (Calycanthus) and many other plants.
Gardening by Myself 1872
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* Quercus Sempervirens. with awful veneration, the Carica papaya, supercilious with all the harmony of beauty and gracefulness; the Lillium superbum represents pride and vanity; Kalmia latifolia and Azalea coccinea, exhibit a perfect show of mirth and gaiety; the Illisium Floridanum, Crinum Floridanum, Convalaria majalis of the Cherokees, and Calycanthus floridus, charm with their beauty and fragrance.
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Here’s a history of the plant and how the hybrid came about (it’s a cross between Calycanthus floridus, a U.S. native and Missouri Botanical Garden Plant of Merit, and Sinocalycanthus chinensis in theZhejiang Province ineastern China).
A rare mail-order shrub finally blooms — yay! « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2010
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_G_, flower of the sweet-scented shrub, _Calycanthus_ (_Calycanthaceæ_), × ½]
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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