Spicebush flowers in the woods today! Lindera benzoin.

I love this plant. The bark and leaves are so fragrant, and the fruits are a unique, amazing native spice. People tend to treat it like allspice, but I think it’s much more like pickled lemon and curry leaf, with only a hint of clove. I like to fry them in butter and put the butter on anything I’d use curry leaf in.

Anyway, they start with just these cute green-yellow flowers 💛

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