Description: This member of the olive family hosts about 30 to 40 species of evergreen shrubs or trees grown for their deep green leaves and fragrant flowers. Osmanthus translates to fragrant flower ...

Fragrant tea: Oolong tea bags with dried osmanthus flowers [Photo by Pauline D. Loh/Shanghai Star] Legend has it that the semi-deity Wu Gang toils endlessly on the moon cutting down an osmanthus tree ...

Hangzhou's iconic flower is known as 'sweet osmanthus' and it usually bursts into bloom between late September and early October each year. During the recent National Day Holiday, large numbers of ...

The little creamy yellow flowers are not flamboyantly visible, but there is no way you can ignore them in full bloom. Pauline D. Loh goes botanical. Osmanthus wine. Osmanthus tea. Osmanthus jam.

Question: I've been looking for plant material that will make a good hedge, but not one that looks unkempt very quickly, or become problematic because it spreads too fast. It should be evergreen since ...

Sweet, lingering and seductive, but not overwhelming - these words could describe an ideal date - or an osmanthus flower, a famous Chinese fragrant and tasteful ingredient of autumn. Gao Ceng inhales.

The meanings represented by kanji characters are not always the same everywhere. Take the kanji that, when it is written in Japan, refers to a midsize deciduous tree called “katsura,” for example. The ...

What fleeting pleasures can we enjoy during Shanghai's all-too-brief autumn? A wisp of cool breeze kissing faces that a month ago were covered with sweat, or a reflection of lush willows in a lake ...