Osmanthus fragrans 'Fudingzhu' Medicinal running wide and staying close

running wide and staying close to the ground

A refined and rarely encountered evergreen conifer from the mountains of southeastern China and Taiwan

and the same patch of air will carry the same perfume every June for decades

where the glossy foliage and tidy proportions show to advantage

Osmanthus fragrans 'Fudingzhu' Medicinal running wide and staying close'Fudingzhu' turns the usual tea olive up a notch. Where most sweet osmanthus scatter a modest few flowers among the leaves, this selection smothers itself in dense, bead like clusters of small, creamy white blooms, so freely and for so long that the name is said to mean pearls upon the Buddha's head, for the way the pale flowers crown the plant. The scent is the pure osmanthus perfume, a rich sweetness of ripe apricot and peach that carries on the