| Scientific Name: | Osmanthus delavayi |
| Common Name: | tea olive |
| Family Name: | Oleaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 2 - 3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Dense |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Fragrance, Rock garden, Small garden/space |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Alkaline |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Lustrous, Elliptic, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, White, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Drupe, Blue, Black, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Medium sized evergreen shrub with graceful arching branches; leaves opposite, ovate-elliptic, thick, curved, dark green, sharply toothed, most just 2-3cm long x 1-1.5cm wide; flowers white, tubular corolla with four petal lobes, fragrant, early spring, <1cm wide. | |