Calycanthus x raulstonii
'Hartlage Wine'
Hartlage Wine Allspice, Hartlage Wine Sweetbush, Raulston's Allspice
Form and Flower
Large fast growing deciduous shrub, commonly used as an understory plant in woodland settings. Multi stem but can be trained in to a small tree. Unlike our native, the 3" wide maroon-red flowers on this one open fully, are quite lavish. The main display is in May and sporadically through the summer. Very precocious and floriferous, we have witnessed two additional cycles of bloom after the initial even under heavy pruning.
Foliage and Fruit
Medium to Large elliptic leaves are medium green, clear yellow in fall.
Size
8-10' Height 8-10' Width - given time even larger
Zone
5-9
Additional Notes
Hybrid between Calycanthus (Sinocalycanthus to some) chinensis and Calycanthus floridus.