I bought a Syzygium aromaticum from patioplants.com and they sent me some unknown tree. I had to email them back and forth about 4 times with pictures and descriptions of the real clove plant before I was able to get a refund. The last thing I received from them was an email stating
"Thathe holidays while we planted them.nk you for your input, we have issued you a full refund for the order and do not require the return of the Clove tree.
So you know - I was one of the team members that planted the seeds of those and they were indeed clove seeds. Smelled like the holidays while we were planting them.
Please enjoy the tree on us.
"
I was happy to return the "clove tree" since the last thing I need is some unknown tree in the hoard. They acted like they were doing me a favor wasting my time. They took down their listing shortly thereafter so I never made a stink about it.
Here is a picture of my $73.77 "Syzygium aromaticum"
They told me they had 100+ in stock and they got seeds from their 10+ year supplier. It isn't even close.