Life … Plants Vascular Plants Dicots Laurels, Spicebushes, and Allies Laurels Sweetwood genus Sweetwood Ocotea Field notes Children Tilo Stinkwood Ocotea leucoxylon Black Candlewood Ocotea atirrensis Wright's Laurel Canelon Ocotea spathulata Laurel De Paloma Ocotea moschata Key traits Layer Trees Plant type Perennial Tree From USDA PLANTS. Close