Tea Olive Shrub [Osmanthus fragrans]

Tea Olive Tree or Shrub, Osmanthus fragrans

A classical evergreen plant of Southern landscapes is the tea olive tree, famous for its delicious fragrance. The tea olive tree can grow into a mature evergreen tree reaching 20 feet, but must commonly is used as a fragrant shrub because of the slow growth. The white flowers of the tea olive shrub are most fragrant in the heat, however, the blooms of the tea olive are most noticeable in Fall, Winter, and Spring with intermittent summer flowering. The tea olive tree is most effective when planted beneath a bedroom window or near door entrances, where visitors can be greeted with the hypnotic aroma that fills the air, in seasons when most other plants are at rest. The white flower clusters of the tea olive shrub are small and not especially noticeable, except for their sweet aroma that fills the air in every season. The tea olive tree is cold hardy to zones 8-10 and highly prized in the southern garden, however, the tea olive plant grows well when containerized.

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