Highly versatile and adapts to most adverse conditions. Useful as border, screen , specimen or barrier for large properties. Fruits eaten by birds. Sweetbay Host for palamedes and spicebush swallowtail butterfly. May be used in borders or trimmed to tree-form for planter boxes.
Fruit attracts birds.
Excellent in natural form or may be sheared for hedges or topiary work. Larger birds will eat the fruit. Leaves poisonous to livestock. Self-seeds very easily. Vines Cross Vine Use with arbor, trellis or fence to provide a screen.