Osmanthus (Osmanthus) occurs as genus of astir Thirty metal money of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, mostly native to warm moderate Asia (from a Caucasus east to Japan) but a single coinage (O. americanus) around North America (southeastern United States, Texas to Virginia). It zero in size from either shrubs to small trees, 2-12 m tall. A leaves are opposite, evergreen, and elementary, using an entire, saw-toothed or even coarsely toothed margin. A flowers are produced around spring, summertime or even fall, to each one flower astir One cm yearn, white, by using the 4-lobed tubular-depending corolla ('flower petal'). A flowers develop around microscopic panicles, and within many coinage have a heavy fragrance. A fruit is a small ()10-15 millimetre), strong-skinned dark blue to purple drupe containing a single seed.

;Selected species Osmanthus americanus - Devilwood Osmanthus or Devilwood Osmanthus armatus Osmanthus decorus - Caucasian Osmanthus Osmanthus delavayi - Delavay's Osmanthus Osmanthus fragrans - Sweet Osmanthus Osmanthus heterophyllus - Chinese Osmanthus Osmanthus serrulatus Osmanthus suavis Osmanthus yunnanensis - Yunnan Osmanthus

;Garden hybrids Osmanthus × burkwoodii (O. delavayi × O. decorus) Osmanthus × fortunei (O. fragrans × O. heterophyllus)

Cultivation and uses
Osmanthus come popular bush inside parks and gardens throughout the warmly moderate zone. Many hybrids and cultivars have been developed. Witharound China, osmanthus tea is by combining dried osmanthus flowers by using black or even green tea leaves in great deal a equivalent manner a further familiar jasmine tea combines jasmine flowers by using tea leaves.

Osmanthus flower in old wood, & green groceries additional flowers in case unpruned. Whenever pruned, a plant responds by producing convenient-aggressive immature vegetive incubation using there is there are no flowers, inside an attempt to restore a flushed branches; a pruned bush typically produces couple or even even no flowers for 1 to 5 or sir thomas more years, prior to the freshly incubation matures sufficiently to begin flowering.