Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Purpureus'

A frost-hardy cultivar with new growth blackish purple.

Raised Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1880.

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Lamiales
family       Oleaceae
genus        Osmanthus Lour.
species         Osmanthus heterophyllus (G.Don) P.S.