The Carolina Cherry Laurel tree is an evergreen shade tree, plus a bonus of a white flowering tree! When planted along roads or highways the Carolina cherry laurel trees absorb noxious car fumes and traffic noise. Birds love the protective branches of the Cherry Laurel tree that is a perfect site for nesting birds. The seed of the Cherry Laurel trees are eaten by wildlife birds and animals.
Cherry Laurel shrubs are formed as privacy hedges when top limbs are pruned out, and the white flowers of the Cherry Laurel trees are beautiful in the spring and emit a pleasant aroma with a sweet perfume - like scent, much like ligustrum flowers. The Cherry Laurel tree is a native occurring shade tree from the Carolinas that grows vigorously into large, wide trees, dense with leafy foliage that forms an excellent privacy screen or privacy block out tree.
