Shrub to 3 m or so tall. Leaves elliptic, to 3 cm long, with 7 or more fine teeth per side, thick and leathery, glossy above and with small black spots below. Flowers axillary or terminal, in clusters of up to 8 flowers, white, fragrant, tube about 1 cm long; Sept. Fruit ovoid, blue-black.

W China

VIC: Dandenongs ('Pirianda').

 

O. ×burkwoodii P.S. Green is a small shrub to about 2 m tall. Leaves to about 4 cm long, ovate to elliptic, margins toothed. Flowers in clusters of 5-7 in the leaf axils in late spring. A hybrid, O. delavayi × O. decorus, raised by Messrs Burkwood and Skipwith of Kingston-on-Thames, UK. [×Osmarea burkwoodii]

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Oleaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.