Keyed Out #019 — Osmanthus delavayi

Question 1

Each minute tubular bloom flares into four neat lobes yet is served by only two {stamens} pressed to its throat.

Accepted Answer

olive family

Question 2

The small, stiff, toothed evergreen leaves sit in strict opposite pairs, two to a node, never staggered singly up the shoot.

Accepted Answer

Oleaceae

Question 3

A leathery-leaved evergreen shrub whose scented flowers ripen into a fleshy, single-stoned {drupe} rather than releasing seed from a dry, splitting {capsule}.

Accepted Answer

Osmanthus

Question 4

Its fragrant flowers gather in tight little clusters in the angle where each leaf meets the stem, not strung along a slender spike or massed into a plume at the branch tips.

Accepted Answer

Osmanthus

Question 5

Its evergreen leaves are tiny, barely 0.5 inch (1.2 cm) and seldom past 1 inch (2.5 cm) long, not the broad leathery blades several times that size, 3 to 8 inches (7 to 20 cm), that clothe its larger relatives.

Accepted Answer

Osmanthus delavayi

Question 6

Every evergreen leaf is edged with small, even, forward-pointing teeth from base to tip, not armed with a few bold, holly-like spines.

Accepted Answer

Osmanthus delavayi

Question 7

It builds a low, dense mound of gracefully arching branches, broader than it is tall and seldom above 8 feet (2.4 m), not an upright bush half again as high.

Accepted Answer

Osmanthus delavayi