Osmanthus Fragrans Osmanthus

Osmanthus fragrans fudingzhu fragrant olive is a medium sized evergreen shrub or small tree of upright oval to columnar habit prized for the powerful fragrance of its flowers. Sweet osmanthus osmanthus fragrans.

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Osmanthus fragrans osmanthus

For information on growing osmanthus outside of its hardiness zones see osmanthus a guide for growing osmanthus in containers at the top of this page. Native to china japan himalayas. Common names include tea olive although it isn t a member of the olive family and false holly for its spiny holly like leaves read on to learn about growing osmanthus plants.

Quite hardy osmanthus fragrans f. Blooming profusely from fall to spring the large clusters of tiny creamy white flowers cover this densely branched shrub. Osmanthus fragrans commonly called fragrant olive sweet olive or sweet tea produces clusters of not particularly showy flowers that have an extremely powerful apricot fragrance.

A number of cultivars have been selected for garden use with varying flower colors such as osmanthus fragrans yanhua with its variegated foliage and orange blooms. Zones ls cs ts. The evergreen foliage of oval leathery leaves retains its lustrous dark green color year.

A large evergreen shrub or small tree with a broad upright form that is densely branched and covered with finely toothed dark green foliage. Long a favorite of southern gardeners. It is a small upright evergreen tree or large shrub that will typically grow to 10 15 tall in cultivation but may reach 20 30 tall in its native habitat in.

Grows at a moderate rate to 15ft. Within japan the white and orange blossoming subspecies are distinguished as ginmokusei 銀木犀 lit. Some describe it as a rose scent others as gardenia and still others as jasmine.

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