Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Goshiki' 25/12 Restock kin to citrus in the

kin to citrus in the rue family

and en masse they turn a modest understory tree into one of the quiet highlights of the southern woodland spring

The botanists felt the strain too: Carl Thunberg first tried to file the plant as Iris orientalis in 1794

and they will hold their light there straight through winter

Cut back hard in late winter to keep the plant dense and free-flowering

Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Goshiki' 25/12 Restock kin to citrus in theGrown for the leaf rather than the flower, 'Goshiki' is the most colorful of the holly osmanthus. The name means five colors in Japanese, and the spiny, holly like evergreen leaves earn it: flecked and mottled with cream and yellow against dark green, and flushed at every new growth with startling pink and orange that slowly settles to gold and green. The species name heterophyllus, from the Greek for different leaved, fits the whole clan, whose