Re: unknown shrub

--- Reid Family <pkssreid@comcast.net> wrote:
> While having lunch with my husband today, I noticed
> out the window of the restaurant, a large flowering
> shrub growing on the edge of a small ravine (Blue
> Ravine) which was all intertwined with flowering
> wild blackberry.  On closer inspection, the 7 ft.+
> shrub has opposite leaves, dark green 3-4 inches
> long.  They are stiffly hairy underneath.  The stems
> are squarish.  The amazing thing is the 2-1/2 in.
> flowers that were generously scattered about the
> shrub.  They look for all the world to be related to
> Magnolia stellata, but they are carried among the
> leaves and are the most unusual shading.  


Did it look like the following:

http://www.laspilitas.com/plants/pictures/a127.jpg

if so, that's Calycanthus occidentalis.
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