1. How do I manage invasive Buckthorns? Explore landscape alternatives like the spicebush (pictured below and to the right in bloom), and enjoy the spicebush butterflies and cecropia moths you’ll attract

2. Other Allspices include: the Japanese allspice ( Chimonanthus praecox ), native to eastern Asia and planted as an ornamental in England and the United States; the wild allspice, or spicebush ( Lindera benzoin ), a shrub of eastern North America, with aromatic berries, reputed to have been used as a substitute for true…

3. Lindera Benzoin, commonly called spicebush, is a Missouri native deciduous shrub with a broad, rounded habit which typically grows 6-12' (less frequently to 15') high in moist locations in bottomlands, woods, ravines, valleys and along streams.Clusters of tiny, apetalous, aromatic, greenish-yellow flowers bloom along the branches in early spring before the foliage