Polecat Bush

Specimen shrub.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

May be difficult to establish because of its long tap root.

Small mammals and birds harvest the fruit.

Sandhills, flatwoods, scrubby flatwoods

• Showy flowers
• The flowers produce an odor similar to rotting meat to attract blowflies or carrion beetles for cross pollination.
• Larval host for zebra swallowtail (Eurytides marcellus) and pawpaw sphinx (Dolba hyloeus).