Osmanthus delavayi

Botanical Name: Osmanthus delavayi
Common Name: Delavay Osmanthus
Family: Oleaceae
Type of Plant: Broadleaf evergreen shrub
Habit: Shrub with twiggy growth, well covered by foliage, neat, with graceful arching branches.
Growth Rate: 
10-Year Height: < 6'
Mature Height: 6' - 8'
Leaves: Opposite, simple, ovate, small, finely toothed, glossy dark green.
Flowers: White, numerous, small, 4 reflexed lobes, fragrant.
Fruit: Blue-black mature fruit.
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Culture: Sun or shade.
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Additional Information: Native to western and southwestern China. Osmanthus: from Greek osme, fragrance, and anthos, flowers. delavayi: after Abbè Jean Marie Delavay (1838-95), French missionary in China who introduced it to France in 1890.