Osmanthus x fortunei 'Natchez' prophouse-fall-2027 The shrub is the primary

The shrub is the primary host of the spicebush swallowtail

transformed into a fragrant shrub

Either way you get narrow gray-green blades

or a streambank

long-lived hardwood that can shade a landscape for two centuries and more

Osmanthus x fortunei 'Natchez' prophouse-fall-2027 The shrub is the primaryOsmanthus 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