Fudingzhu Fragrant Tea Olive
Their scent makes them ideal for planting near windows and outdoor living areas where the fall blooming flowers can be readily enjoyed.
Fudingzhu fragrant tea olive. Join our friendly community that shares tips and ideas for gardens along with seeds and plants. Osmanthus fragrant tea olive sweet olive osmanthus fragrans fudingzhu welcome to the famous dave s garden website. Tea olives osmanthus species are some of the most sweetly fragrant plants in southern gardens. For an encore the.
These unusually scented flowers come on in late winter signaling the beginning of spring then bloom sporadically during the summer. Blooming profusely from fall to spring the large clusters of tiny creamy white flowers cover this densely branched shrub. One of the most refreshing signs of fall and spring is the unique and memorable fragrance of tea olive in full bloom. Fragrant tea olives begin blooming in fall and in warm climates the blooms continue all winter.
Osmanthus fragrans fudingzhu fragrant olive is a medium sized evergreen shrub or small tree of upright oval to columnar habit prized for the powerful fragrance of its flowers. Tea olives grow as dense evergreen shrubs or small trees. Aurantiacus features citrusy fragrant blooms and is more cold hardy than most tea olives. This variety is exceptionally heavy blooming.
Osmanthus fragrans better known as the fragrant tea olive produces small white blooms that pack a punch. Aurantiacus evergreen asian shrub that can become almost tree like in mild climates. Fodingzhu tea olive this is by far our number one selling plant on the internet. Flowers can be seen from a couple hundred feet away and you can start to smell the sweet fragrance within one hundred feet.
Leaves are dark glossy green with sharp spines similar. An orange blooming variety of tea olive osmanthus fragrans f. Gardens for the deliciously fragrant flowers which are light to bright orange. Some describe it as a rose scent others as gardenia and still others as jasmine.
Some of our asian customers have told us that the name fodingzhu means pearls on buddha s head we had a group of chinese professors visit us a few days ago and they corrected my spelling of fudingzhu which we have used since begi. Orange fragrant tea olive osmanthus f. The fragrance has been compared to that of jasmine orange blossoms or peaches. Individual flowers are tiny but noticeable since they bloom in clusters.
It is highly prized in southern u s. White highly fragrant flowers last for several weeks. The heaviest blooming tea olive in existence bar none it flowers so heavily that its blooms literally encircle its branches. It is more cold hardy than the species.
The leaves are about 3 inches long with small marginal teeth. Fortune s tea olive has dense growth in an oval rounded form.