Exposure:
Sun to partial shade; moist to dry soil;
prefers an alkaline pH
Height:
6 to 12'
Flower/Fruit:
Shiny greenish yellow spicily fragrant
flowers in late winter; scarlet red spicy scented fruit in fall
Comments: Flowers attracts birds; usually multitrunked;
brilliant yellow fall foliage; leaves and twigs have a spicy fragrance;
larval food for spice bush and tiger swallowtails
Cultivars:
Rubra (brick red fruit); Xanthocarpa
(orange-yellow fruit)
