Description

The profusely blooming and sweetly fragrant white flowers, and dense habit, makes this variety very appealing; flowers continuously from fall to spring in large clusters on the stems; a great garden or container plant that takes pruning well

Landscape Attributes

Fudingzhu Fragrant Tea Olive is a dense multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a shapely oval form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Fudingzhu Fragrant Tea Olive is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Fudingzhu Fragrant Tea Olive will grow to be about 12 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 8 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 40 years or more.

This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.