Chinese evergreen sweetspire

[plantmanky]

Just to get things started on this forum I thought I'd add a broadleaf evergreen, the chinese sweetspire (Itea illicfolia) that is rather rare. This is not the best specimen as I'd like to have a larger trunk on it. The thing I like about this plant is when it flowers in the early spring it draws all kinds of intresting moths and butterflies to it. It is an evergeen cousin of our north American sweetspire.

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