Osmanthus × burkwoodii

Source: OSU Department of Horticulture

Botanical Name: Osmanthus × burkwoodii
Common Name: Burkwood Osmanthus
Family: Oleaceae
Type of Plant: Broadleaf evergreen shrub
Habit: Bushy shrub
Growth Rate: Slow
10-Year Height: < 6'
Mature Height: 8'
Leaves: Opposite, ovate to ovate-elliptic, tip narrow acute, base rounded to wedge-shaped (cuntate), margin slightly toothed, glossy, bright green.
Flowers: White, small, short tubular, 4-lobed, fragrant, similar to those of O. delavayi, cover the plant in spring.
Fruit: Seldomed produced, blue to purple, small, oval.
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Culture: Sun to part shade.
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Landscape Uses: Good hedge. Mixed shrub border.
Additional Information: Easy to grow. A hybrid between O. delavayi and O. decorus produced in England before 1928. Osmanthus: from Greek osme, fragrance, and anthos, flowers. burkwoodii: after Burkwood and Shipwith nursery in England, the raisers.