Styrax americanus Lam.

Shrubs or trees, to 5 m, not suckering from roots. Leaves: petiole 2-6 mm; blade with 5-8 secondary veins, elliptic or broadly elliptic to obovate or nearly ovate, 1.2-10 × 0.6-5.7 cm, largest blades on sterile shoots 2-5.7 cm wide, margins of at least some leaves denticulate to serrate, rarely also lobed, longest arms of abaxial hairs 0.1-0.2 mm. False-terminal inflorescences 2-5-flowered or solitary flower, 2-3.5 cm; axillary flowers present on at least some shoots (subtending leaves often reduced). Pedicels 4-10(-14) mm, longer than calyx. Flowers: calyx 2.5-4 × 2.5-4.5 mm; corolla 11-16 mm, tube 1.5-3 mm, lobes 5(-6), imbricate or subinduplicate-valvate in bud, strongly reflexed, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 7-14 × 1-5 mm; filaments distinct beyond adnation to corolla. Capsules globose, 7-9 × 7-9 mm (broader when 2-3-seeded), gray stellate-pubescent, dehiscent nearly or completely to proximal end, broadly exposing seed(s); fruit wall 0.3-0.4 mm thick. 2n = 16.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.