Spicebush

The caterpillars live in folded leaf shelters and eat the leaves of the sassafras or spicebush. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fall stroll with staff horticulturist Deanne Eversmeyer featuring native plants such as American serviceberry, American yellowwood, Virginia sweetspire, spicebush, fragrant sumac, native ferns and grasses. 10 a.m. ❋ Joel M. Lerner (2010)

Yesterday I saw a butterfly hit by a car — a spicebush swallowtail. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sheila: along those lines–this butterfly is probably a spicebush swallowtail. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Brown put it in his 1971 biography, "to sing of native birds like the brown thrasher and bobolink rather than the skylark and nightingale, of the spicebush or the late-blooming fringed gentian rather than Britain's gorse or primrose." ❋ Wes Davis (2008)

This is a caterpillar of the butterfly spicebush swallowtail Papilio troilus. ❋ AYDIN (2007)

Strong and healthy, he didn't mind living for weeks at a time on venison, spicebush tea, hickory nuts, and thorn apples. ❋ Unknown (2004)

While he waited he regarded a spicebush just on the other side of the fence, ice beginning to cling to the red berries. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

So that is how Seyganko came to the western shore of the Lake of Death on the night that Conan sat keeping watch beside the spicebush where Valeria slept. ❋ Green, Roland (1993)

She rolled over and tried for the tenth time to find a spot where a root of their sheltering spicebush would not dig into her flesh. ❋ Green, Roland (1993)

He had known summer in its golden mood, with forests pungent with spicebush and sassafras; festooned with wild grape, woodbine, and bittersweet; carpeted with velvet moss and starry mandrake peeping from beneath green shades; the never-ending murmur of the shining river; and the rich fulfilment of love's fruition. ❋ Unknown (1915)

An 'back a little an' there's jest thickets of papaw, an 'thorns, an' wild grape-vines, an 'crab, an' red an 'black haw, an' dogwood, an 'sumac, an' spicebush, an 'trees! ❋ Unknown (1915)

There were clam shells piled up with red checkerberries, and caddis worms on the half shell, with spicebush nubbins. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)

The hairy woodpecker devours many of the above fruits, as well as those of spicebush, sour gum, cherries, grapes, blackberries. ❋ Unknown (1878)

That these plants are unfamiliar to many is somewhat ironic, as many of the fruit trees and shrubs -- such as paw paw, spicebush, and serviceberry -- are actually native to Iowa. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The same is true of the other trees and shrubs that may be affected, he said, including various members of the spicebush family. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"[Oh man], I spicebushed [my girlfriend] [so hard] last night!" ❋ SadBoiDickHole (2015)

The [young man] and his red [headed] girlfriend enjoyed their [spicebush swallowtail]. ❋ Juicy To The Jay (2016)