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You say you're looking for a slow-growing, columnar tree with
a mature height of 20 feet or so? Look no further than the bay rum, a magical
charmer with healing properties.
Found throughout Tropical America
and the islands of the Caribbean, the leaves of this cousin of the Allspice
Pimenta dioica, have been used as a spice in cooking, as a
perfume, and as a liniment to ease muscle aches.
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Suffice to say, you will be happy with Bay Rum, which will
never run out of fragrance, as long as you don't pull off all the leaves in
some kind of mad sniffing frenzy. |