Osmanthus x fortunei ‘San Jose' Bob McCartney is a botanical rarity with

is a botanical rarity with a story as striking as the summer bloom

" Evergreen and good-looking

Use the plant as an evergreen screen

the plant works as a low informal hedge

Osmanthus x fortunei ‘San Jose' Bob McCartney is a botanical rarity withOsmanthus x fortunei 'San Jose' is a large, upright member of Fortune's tea olive, the garden hybrid that crosses the false holly, Osmanthus heterophyllus, with the sweet olive, Osmanthus fragrans. Among the fortunei clones, 'San Jose' stands apart for thinner, more finely toothed leaves and a taller, more upright habit, a plant that reaches for height where others spread. This is one of the bigger tea olives, building over time into a dense evergreen