Small/medium-sized, laurel-family tree of the coastal hammocks of Tropical
America and the Caribbean, gets up to 25 feet or so high.
Not the least
among its many favorable features are leaves that have a fresh, licorice-y
smell when crushed.
Like fashionably-dressed ladies at the perfume counter, the
charming flowers of the lancewood display packages of pollen to their
enthusiastic clients.
