Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica and cerifera, many subspecies) is called colloquially candleberry, sweet bay, spicebrush, wax berry and myrtle bay. When the first European colonists landed on the ...

We often gather these fragrant berries and use them in arrangements with bayberry candles. They keep well dried, lasting for years. They also look great glued to swags or wreaths. The wax from ...

The small quantity, weak structural quality and scarcity of bayberry wax would make pure bayberry wax candles a bit of a non-starter. But fortunately, it plays well with other waxes such as bee ...

Myrica pensylvanica, Northern Bayberry, is a more cold-hardy species and the source of wax for bayberry candles. Propagation is by seeds, which germinate easily and rapidly, tip cuttings ...

But wait—the same esters can bring you joy. They are major components of bayberry wax, a substance derived from the fruit of bayberry shrubs (Myrica cerifera and M. pensylvanica) that grow in many ...

Probably a good thing, although we didn’t know it then: it takes fifteen pounds of the berries to yield a pound of wax. Unless you were well off or could make them yourselves, bayberry candles ...

One of our most common and valuable native shrubs is the wax myrtle (Morella cerifera, formerly Myrica cerifera), which is sometimes called southern bayberry. This multi-trunked evergreen grows ...

According to old stories and legends in the 1700s, just before Christmas, a small group of women in a little New England colony added the wax and oil of the Bayberry to their candles. Not only did ...