*RETAIL - Lindera megaphylla [Shaanxi Province] Palm/Cycad FRAGRANT OLIVE

FRAGRANT OLIVE

this long-grown form has lovely crepe-paper textured pink blooms from spring through summer

Our original seed collections have grown in our somewhat more lavish conditions to 15 ft small trees just large enough to show off the reflective undersides of the leaves

I first observed this form

Our clone from good friend Kevin Hughes

*RETAIL - Lindera megaphylla [Shaanxi Province] Palm/Cycad FRAGRANT OLIVEFrom the warm temperate subtropical forests of southern China and surrounds, this is among the largest in the genus. Trees reaching 20 to 30 ft in a few years with old trees in habitat to 70 ft. Fragrant long narrow leaves up to 10 inches in length tending to be clustered at the ends of each branch often single trunked and quite symmetric in form. Small creamy yellow flowers and small blackish fruit in autumn. Full sun to dappled shade consistent even