About

Osmanthus delavayi, Delavay osmanthus, is a dense, rather slow-growing, medium-sized evergreen shrub with rounded or ovate, dark-green leaves to 2.5 cm long. In spring it smothers itself in small, highly fragrant, white tubular flowers in clusters, followed by small, blue-black berries. One of the finest and most fragrant of all spring-flowering shrubs for a sheltered, sunny garden.

About the genus

Osmanthus are evergreen shrubs or small trees with leathery, opposite leaves and small, usually intensely fragrant, tubular, white, yellow or orange flowers followed by ovoid, blue-black fruits. Popular specimen and hedging shrubs in sheltered gardens.

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