Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow . If you take a botany class, you learn that the leaves or stems of certain plants have aromatic compounds. My mother had a Florida anise, Illicium parvifollium , in our yard and she would always crush a leaf when we walked outside and let us inhale that wonderful licorice fragrance. Another tree whose leaves have a distinctive but not so pleasant smell is our deciduous black cherry, Prunus serotina . The stems and