Calycanthus x raulstonii 'Hartlage Wine' George Forrest macrophylla to the late golden

macrophylla to the late golden daisies of Rudbeckia fulgida var

fresh green and lightly fragrant when bruised

while beavers gnaw the wood so readily that the old names beaver tree and castorwood stuck

and this is a fruiting female

Calycanthus x raulstonii 'Hartlage Wine' George Forrest macrophylla to the late goldenBorn of careful hands and watchful eyes at the JC Raulston Arboretum in North Carolina, Calycanthus raulstonii 'Hartlage Wine' is a sweetshrub of uncommon grace. Richard Hartlage made the cross as an undergraduate at North Carolina State University in 1991, pairing the Southern native Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus) with the refined Chinese sweetshrub (Calycanthus chinensis); the seedling first flowered in 1996, and the hybrid name honors J.