Osmanthus x fortunei 'Natchez' prophouse-fall-2027 well-mannered spread

well-mannered spread

The shrub is the primary host of the spicebush swallowtail

each pod packed with intensely fragrant black seeds

bristle-tipped leaves are not really holly-like at all

Osmanthus x fortunei 'Natchez' prophouse-fall-2027 well-mannered spreadOsmanthus x fortunei 'Natchez' is a hybrid that takes the best of two parents. The cross joins Osmanthus fragrans, the sweet olive treasured for its perfume, with Osmanthus heterophyllus, the false holly valued for tough, spiny, evergreen foliage, and 'Natchez' inherits both gifts: a dense, glossy, holly leaved frame and a flood of fragrance in fall. The hybrid takes the name of the old river town of Natchez, Mississippi, a nod to the Deep South