Osmanthus x fortunei ‘San Jose' Bob McCartney Buxus balearica is the bold-leaved

Buxus balearica is the bold-leaved boxwood: an upright shrub or small tree related to the common boxwood

Like the blueberries and azaleas nearby

and any moist or irrigated bed

As a Woodlanders selection of the evergreen southern sweetbay

" Evergreen and good-looking

Osmanthus x fortunei ‘San Jose' Bob McCartney Buxus balearica is the bold-leavedOsmanthus x fortunei 'San Jose' is a large, upright member of Fortune's tea olive, the garden hybrid that crosses the false holly, Osmanthus heterophyllus, with the sweet olive, Osmanthus fragrans. Among the fortunei clones, 'San Jose' stands apart for thinner, more finely toothed leaves and a taller, more upright habit, a plant that reaches for height where others spread. This is one of the bigger tea olives, building over time into a dense evergreen