Re: Here's one for you......
- Subject: Re: Here's one for you......
- From: John MacGregor j*@earthlink.net
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:11:43 -0700
on 10/20/03 6:43 PM, Trevor Nottle at Trevor.Nottle@tv.tafe.sa.edu.au wrote:
> Dear Sean
>
> One of our students has just come in with a mystery plant. It is
> evergreen, has broadly lanceolate leaves, no conspicuous veins but a
> slight red tinge to the leaf margins. It is grown as a hedge about 3m
> high. The telling feature are the flowers that are densley packed on a
> very short stem in each leaf axil; they are white, pinkish on the
> reverse, strongly perfumed, short tube opening to a four petalled star.
> Sort of like a shrubby Jasmine? Got any clues?
Osmanthus fragrans?
John MacGregor
South Pasadena, CA 91030
USDA zone 9 Sunset zones 21/23
