On 27/4/07 23:55, in article , "Bob
Hobden" wrote:


"Sacha" wrote
We're trying to ID a shrub we saw in a garden down here yesterday. It's
small tree height and has several 'trunks' with a roughish grey bark. The
leaves are mid-green, oval and not at all leathery or tough looking. The
flowers are like one half of a long brush, white, bell shaped (as far as I
could see) and are carried upright on the stems, not hanging down as one
might expect. Anyone know what this might be?
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I doubt it's correct so try Osmanthus x burkwoodii or is a White form of the
Beauty Bush more like it? :-)

Neither of those, I'm afraid, Bob. I'll try to do some more hunting through
the books tomorrow. The leaves are too 'fine' for an Osmanthus, or at
least, any that I know. They're roughly - roughly - the consistency of a
young beech leaf in terms of thickness and colour etc.
I have a terrible feeling that when I do find it everyone is going to groan
and say "well for heaven's sake, of *course*......" ;-)

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