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Fragrant shrub in Stresa ID'd as Osmanthus fragrans

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ritamax

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Fragrant shrub in Stresa ID'd as Osmanthus fragrans
« on: October 09, 2012, 11:01:13 AM »
This large pruned shrub seen in Stresa, northern Italy, is probably some common variety, but I don't know it, it is very fragrant. An ID, please!
« Last Edit: August 13, 2013, 06:19:01 PM by Alisdair »
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Hobbygardener (MGS member) with a rooftop garden in Basel and a garden on heavy clay with sand 600m from seaside in Costa Blanca South (precipitation 300mm), learning to garden waterwise
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Alisdair

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Re: ID for a shrub wanted
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2012, 12:01:19 PM »
Looks like Osmanthus fragrans (an ingredient in the scent Acqua di Stresa, incidentally).
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Alisdair Aird
Gardens in SE England (Sussex); also coastal Southern Greece, and (in a very small way) South West France; MGS member (and former president); vice chairman RHS Lily Group, past chairman Cyclamen Society
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ritamax

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Re: ID for a shrub wanted
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2012, 06:37:52 PM »
OK, thanks, I didn't think about that, as this white flowered one was so much larger in all the parts of the plant than the apricot coloured seen on the same lakeside promenade. Even the fragrance was much stronger.
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