Eastern sweetshrub
Calycanthus fertilis
The North American sweetshrubs are, like magnolias, living fossils. Their main attraction are the originally shaped purple flowers (hence the Latin name), which, like the whole plant, exude the characteristic smell of baked apples, camphor, and cloves.
After three sweetshrubs had been planted near the rose garden in Lusławice, it turned out one of them had quite different blossom. Professor Jerzy Tumiłowicz, head of the Arboretum in Rogów, invited to make an expertise, announced to the visibly proud Penderecki that he was in possession of a completely new variety.