The sweetshrub or in frensh “Calycanthe fausse-cannelle” (Calycanthus floridus) is so called because the dried bark is used in small quantities as a substitute for cinnamon. Its scientific name refers to its flowers as well as to Florida for this plant with its exotic appeal. Growing in various environments, even shaded ones, the robust and round shrub, with dense and glossy foliage, with well-defined contours, is also suitable for clayey and humid soils with its surface roots tolerating short floods. It will appreciate an organic mulch.

Install it near your living spaces, under a window that you will not want to close, because it will bewitch you with its long flowering of magnolia, burgundy pink, from which emanates a spicy perfume with fruity and variable notes of strawberry, pineapple, banana and apple, pleasing to butterflies. In the fall, it is adorned with golden leaves.

Deer tend to avoid its camphor-scented leaves, which are considered repellent and toxic to many small animals and insect pests. False cinnamon spreads by suckers slowly.

It is the bark that is used like cinnamon, sparingly, ground into a powder after drying, a practice dating back to colonial times in the southeastern United States.
Caution: its seeds are poisonous: https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/calycanthus-floridus/