Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Sasaba' 24/11 Restock and is grown above all

and is grown above all for a weeping form and an early-season flood of fragrant

the massive fans and heavy trunk carrying real presence against sky or architecture

Heads an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half across

widespread member of the clan

strap-shaped leaves emerge a deep

Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Sasaba' 24/11 Restock and is grown above all'Sasaba' is the holly osmanthus taken to a theatrical extreme, grown less for flower than for the sheer drama of the leaf. Each dark, glossy, evergreen leaf is cut and incised into narrow, spine tipped lobes that jut out in every direction, so that the whole shrub reads as a slow green explosion. The Japanese name says it well: sasaba means bamboo leaf, for the narrow, divided foliage. Underneath the fireworks, this is Osmanthus heterophyllus, the