Grow in a large tub and given lots of light. Probably the whitest carnations you will ever see. An excellent cutflower, they also make wonderful bedding and border plants. Has spicy-sweet fragrance. A vigorous deciduous shrub with green rush- like stems up to 8 or 9 ft.
Leaves are inconspicuous.
Flowers are large, pea shaped and fragrant. The dried stems make a great background for dried arrangement settings. Also makes a great garden decoration. Calycanthus Floridus A fast growing shrub with very fragrant reddish brown flowers. The bark of the plant can be used as cinnamon substitute.