Common Name:
Spicebush
About 80 species of aromatic, evergreen or deciduous shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, margin entire or 3-lobed. Dioecious – male and female plants. Flowers yellow, in dense clusters (umbels), subtended by 4 bracts; male flowers with 9-12 anthers and female flowers with 9 staminoides. Fruit a 1-seeded drupe, rounded, fleshy or dry.
Lindera: after Johann Linder (1678-1723), Swedish botanist and physician.
Pronunciation:
lin-DER-a
Family:
Lauraceae