Redbay
Persea borbonia
Aromatic evergreen whose leaves can season a pot like true bay. A larval host for Palamedes and spicebush swallowtails, though now imperiled by laurel wilt disease.
- Family
- Lauraceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 30–50 ft
- Spacing
- 30–50 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- May, June
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~18 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen
- Native states
- AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, TX