Osmanthus × burkwoodii (Burkwood & Skipwith) P. S. Green

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Osmanthus × burkwoodii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/osmanthus/osmanthus-x-burkwoodii/). Accessed 2024-04-18.

Genus

Osmanthus

Synonyms

Osmarea Osmarea burkwoodii Burkwood & Skipwith

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

axillary: Situated in an axil.
corolla: The inner whorl of the perianth. Composed of free or united petals often showy.
glabrous: Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
hybrid: Plant originating from the cross-fertilisation of genetically distinct individuals (e.g. two species or two subspecies).
ovate: Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Osmanthus × burkwoodii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/osmanthus/osmanthus-x-burkwoodii/). Accessed 2024-04-18.

Osmanthus × burkwoodii flowering at Ardkinglas Woodland Garden, Argyll, Scotland. 18th April 2022. Image Tom Christian.

This hybrid between O. delavayi and O. decorus was raised by Messrs Burkwood and Skipwith of Kingston-on-Thames. It is an evergreen with downy young shoots and shortly stalked, oval to ovate leaves 1 to 2 in. long, slightly toothed, glabrous, leathery, dark, rather glossy green. Flowers white, fragrant, borne in terminal and axillary clusters of six or seven, opening in April. Tube of corolla about 3⁄16 in. long, with lobes nearly as long as the tube.

Until one of the parent species, O. decorus, was recently transferred from the genus Phillyrea to Osmanthus, this plant was treated as a bigeneric hybrid with the generic name Osmarea.

O. × burkwoodii is very hardy, rather slow in growth, but dense and bushy, and as such is a useful and attractive evergreen and hedge-plant.

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