Northern spicebush
Lindera benzoin (L.) Blume
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 3.5 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Lauraceae
Also called Common spicebush, Hairy spicebush, Spicebush
Formerly Benzoin aestivale, Benzoin odoriferum, Calosmon aestivale, Calosmon benzoin, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Canada to C. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 2.4 m to 4.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.8 m to 4.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- root
- LINBEN, Daʔdyáʔksqwaʔ, ᏃᏓᏥ
- Russian
- Линдера бензойная
- Czech
- lindera benzoin
- Chinese (China)
- 桂皮钓樟, 北美山胡椒
- Chinese
- 北美山胡椒, 北方山胡椒
- Danish
- Feberbusk
- French
- Benjoin, Laurier faux-benjoin
- German
- Gewürzbusch, Fieberbusch, Gewürzholz
- Finnish
- rohtoryytilaakeri
- Slovak
- lindera benzoová
- Ukrainian
- Ліндера бензойна
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Lindera benzoin (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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