Botanical Name: Chimonanthus praecox
Common Name: “Fragrant Wintersweet”
Characteristics:
Height: 9 to 10 Feet
Spread: 8 to 9 Feet
Light: Full sun to partial shade
Bloom: December-January
Description:
Large, slow-growing, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub provides clusters of small, extremely-fragrant, waxen, pale-yellow blooms during the winter on growth from the previous summer. Its lustrous, dark-green foliage turns yellow in the fall before dropping.