Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: What's your favorite shrub? (right now anyway), 1 by rosemarysims

rosemarysims wrote:
A new shrub/small tree (as we call them here) that I'd never experienced in my old New Orleans stomping grounds: Ptelea trifoliata, a larval host for the giant swallowtail, and which smells in early spring bloom just like an orange grove. Everybody I rave about it to tells me it smells like a skunk, but I never smelled that smell before somebody crushed a leaf for me. This plant and I are gonna be good friends I think.

Rosemary