Osmanthus americanus Richard Lynch multi-branched spikes far larger than

multi-branched spikes far larger than the straight species

hardy well north of the wild range

so plants in good form read as flowering far longer than they technically are

pretty enough in passing

which is part of what lends the Sago Palm such a primeval presence in a modern garden

Osmanthus americanus Richard Lynch multi-branched spikes far larger thanDevilwood earns the odd name honestly. Osmanthus americanus carries a wood so cross grained and stubborn that early woodworkers swore the timber was possessed, and the name has stuck for centuries, a small piece of American folklore hung on an otherwise gracious plant. The leaves are leathery, elliptical, and smooth margined, a deep glossy green without the spines that arm so many tea olives, and they build into a dense, rounded evergreen of fifteen