Lindera belongs to the laurel family
Native to the warm coasts and hillsides of southern Japan
In late summer and into fall
In spring the blue racemes draw queen bumblebees and other long-tongued native bees
and pair with other Southern broadleaf evergreens where fast
Nyssa ogeche Re-introduce Lindera belongs to the laurelNyssa ogeche, the Ogeechee tupelo, is a medium sized deciduous tree of the southeastern Coastal Plain, at home from southern South Carolina through the Ogeechee valley of Georgia into northern Florida and Alabama. The genus name honors Nyssa, a water nymph of Greek myth, and the tree lives up to the name, thriving along creeks, river swamps, and seasonally flooded bottoms where the soil stays acidic and wet. Best known of all is the fruit: elongated,