sweet olive

plant
Also known as: Osmanthus fragrans, sweet osmanthus

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  • False holly (Osmanthus heterophyllus).
    In tea olive

    Sweet olive, or sweet osmanthus (Osmanthus fragrans), a 10-metre (33-foot) tree, produces an edible fruit. Its leaves, used to perfume tea, hide the white flowers. Orange osmanthus (O. aurantiaca), 2.5 metres in height, has fragrant orange flowers. Holly osmanthus, or false holly (O. heterophyllus), distinguished…

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