Styrax obassia

For me this tree always resides in a particular memory from my time at Yew Dell Gardens in Kentucky. In the middle of the workday, executive director Paul Cappiello came screaming by in one of the golf carts and said "hop in we're gonna go look at a tree". So I did and off we went, ripping through the arboretum at top speed until WHAM we were smacked in the face by a thick, heavenly floral scent. The source of which revealed itself when we turned the corner and entered a sun-flooded clearing where white petals danced in the air as they fell from a majestic beast of this species drenched in flowers. "I think this is the best snowbell species", Paul said and it was certainly hard to disagree in that moment, its hard to disagree now for that matter. You need this.