banana-shrub

Updated: June 20, 2025

I arrived, as I have said, rather late in the afternoon; so late that I did nothing more than ramble a little about the city, noting by the way the advent of the chimney swifts, which I had not found elsewhere, and returning to my lodgings with a handful of "banana-shrub" blossoms, smelling wonderfully like their name, which a good woman had insisted upon giving me when I stopped beside the fence to ask her the name of the bush.

Bradford Torrey - A Florida Sketch-Book