Osmanthus Heterophyllus Variegatus
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Osmanthus heterophyllus variegatus. Genus osmanthus can be evergreen shrubs or small trees with leathery opposite leaves and small usually fragrant tubular white yellow or orange flowers with 4 lobes followed by ovoid blue black fruits details variegatus is a rather slow growing medium sized evergreen shrub with spiny ovate leaves boldly edged with creamy white. Osmanthus heterophyllus variegatus sku 6325 small evergreen shrub with many erect branches to form a mound. The cultivars goshiki variegatus and purple shaft have gained the royal horticultural society s award of garden merit. Holly osmanthus holly olive chinese holly false holly osmanthus heterophyllus holly osmanthus is a bushy evergreen shrub prized for its foliage of leathery glossy deep green leaves.
They are holly like with spiny margins when juvenile resembling english holly and simple elliptic or ovate when adult. Slow growing and compact osmanthus heterophyllus goshiki holly osmanthus is a bushy evergreen shrub prized for its variegated and colorful holly like foliage. Osmanthus heterophyllus variegatus variegated holly olive tree will reach a height of 2 5m and a spread of 2 5m after 10 20 years. Goshiki means 5 colors in japanese.
Osmanthus heterophyllus commonly called holly olive or false olive is a dense upright bushy evergreen shrub that typically grows to 8 10 tall and as wide in cultivation but may reach 25 tall in the wild in its native habitat japan and taiwan. The leaves vary in shape. A t state university work in tandem along with federal state and local governments to form a strategic partnership called n c. The resulting hybrid is named osmanthus fortunei carr.
Osmanthus heterophyllus nc state university and n c. Emerging pink the leathery leaves unfold as creamy white gold and bronze variegated dark green spiny leaves. Leathery holly like leaves are irregularly spined and dark green edged in creamy white. Osmanthus heterophyllus description this variegated osmanthus makes a great low growing and compact alternative to an ornamental holly especially in a smaller garden.
Its average texture blends into the landscape but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.