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Osmanthus fragrans
Native to Asia, sweet olive is a favorite shrub in gardens for its fragrance, which can detected at quite a distance. Evergreen. (The Southeast U.S. has a native "cousin" of this plant called devilwood or wild olive, Osmanthus americanus.)
Spotted on Oct 7, 2013
Submitted on Oct 12, 2013
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When I uploaded this spotting, one online source remarked that you can smell sweet olive in bloom for several hundred feet. I thought, yeah, don't think so. Well, I was wrong ... you really, really can.