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Sun, Nov 6, 11 at 15:27
| I live in northwest Mississippi (zone 8a). In the last week I've walked by a couple of houses with some sort of sweet-smelling shrubs planted in a hedgerow near the street. They have tiny, off-white flowers. I think they are evergreens. I don't think they would be sweet olives or wintersweets. God bless. |
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| Osmanthus fragrans (Tea Olive) would be my guess. Mine is blooming its head off right now, too. |
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| I agree with rhizo. It sounds like tea olive (_Osmanthus fragrans_) or one of the other members of the _Osmanthus_ tribe. Our tea olives had their major flush of blooms a few weeks ago, but will be flushed with blooms again at different times during the fall, winter, and early spring. Of course, it could, as Flora suggests, be a form of _Eleagnus_, which produces sweetly-scented fall blossom that are off-white in color. |
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| OOps, I didn't read chris's question very carefully. He/she indicated that sweet olive (tea olive?) might not be an option. Then, without any picture, or further comments from the original poster I guess the plant is probably Ugly-Agnus. Very sweet fragrance. |
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