Osmanthus x fortunei 'Natchez' prophouse-fall-2027 with arching branches

with arching branches

well-mannered spread

transformed into a fragrant shrub

and the feathered crown is a case of convergent evolution rather than kinship

or a streambank

Osmanthus x fortunei 'Natchez' prophouse-fall-2027 with arching branchesOsmanthus x fortunei 'Natchez' is a hybrid that takes the best of two parents. The cross joins Osmanthus fragrans, the sweet olive treasured for its perfume, with Osmanthus heterophyllus, the false holly valued for tough, spiny, evergreen foliage, and 'Natchez' inherits both gifts: a dense, glossy, holly leaved frame and a flood of fragrance in fall. The hybrid takes the name of the old river town of Natchez, Mississippi, a nod to the Deep South