{"id":7054,"date":"2015-03-01T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=7054"},"modified":"2016-03-28T09:43:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T13:43:49","slug":"spicebush-native-plant-and-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2015\/03\/01\/spicebush-native-plant-and-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Spicebush \u2013 The Native Plant And The Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7099\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lindera_benzoin1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7099\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7099\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lindera_benzoin1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Bright Red Spicebush Fruits In Fall\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lindera_benzoin1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lindera_benzoin1-1024x679.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bright Red Spicebush Fruits In Fall<\/p><\/div>\n<p>U.S. native spicebush (<i>Lindera benzoin<\/i>) is\u00a0a beautiful landscape plant (USDA hardiness zones 4-9) for an open or woodland garden.\u00a0Spicebush matures into a 12-15 feet tall and wide large shrub or small tree over many years.<\/p>\n<p>Light green deciduous leaves, 3 to 5 inches long, are delightfully fragrant when-crushed. Leaves is\u00a0the preferred food for the larvae of\u00a0the Spicebush swallowtail butterfly (<i>Papilio troilus<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>This dioecious shrub\u00a0contributes\u00a0a great deal of pleasure: aromatic foliage, showy autumn fruits,\u00a0and lemony yellow fall color.\u00a0The tiny 1\/5 inch wide\u00a0pale yellow flowers open\u00a0in early spring and\u00a0go mostly unnoticed during a time when\u00a0showier shrubs and trees\u00a0are also blooming.\u00a0Female plants are ladened with\u00a0 1\/2\u00a0inch diameter berries that turn from green to yellow to glossy red. Fall red\u00a0ripe berries quickly disappear, devoured by\u00a0numerous birds and\u00a04-legged fauna. Fall color\u00a0rating varies from one year to the next and may be\u00a0brightly yellow in good years.<\/p>\n<p>Spicebush thrives in moist, well-drained, acidic soil\u00a0and in\u00a0full to partial shade.\u00a0Initial growth rate is\u00a0slow\u00a0and gradually picks up in succeeding years. A multi-year old spicebush will naturalize in a\u00a0moist or dry woodland site. Warning: spicebush tends to root sucker.<\/p>\n<p>The spicebush swallowtail butterfly is endemic\u00a0to the eastern US and southern Ontario. They are among the largest butterflies in the world. Spicebush swallowtail adults (butterflies) nourish themselves on nectar filled garden flowers and lay her eggs on\u00a0spicebush foliage. Eggs hatch and\u00a0the\u00a0brown caterpillar larvae feed on the spicebush leaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 U.S. native spicebush (Lindera benzoin) is\u00a0a beautiful landscape plant (USDA hardiness zones 4-9) for an open or woodland garden.\u00a0Spicebush matures into a 12-15 feet tall and wide large shrub or small tree over many years. Light green deciduous leaves, 3 to 5 inches long, are delightfully fragrant when-crushed. Leaves is\u00a0the preferred food for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,657,747,749,674,806,1144,1012,627,843,1060,1059,630,1191,705,646,7,819,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7054"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8670,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054\/revisions\/8670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}