Osmanthus americanus Richard Lynch Clethra tomentosa is native to

Clethra tomentosa is native to the southern U

and tan that adds real winter beauty once the branches are bare

throwing a clean

unspotted foliage and a tidy three-to-four-foot frame

and the plant has stayed scarce ever since

Osmanthus americanus Richard Lynch Clethra tomentosa is native toDevilwood earns the odd name honestly. Osmanthus americanus carries a wood so cross grained and stubborn that early woodworkers swore the timber was possessed, and the name has stuck for centuries, a small piece of American folklore hung on an otherwise gracious plant. The leaves are leathery, elliptical, and smooth margined, a deep glossy green without the spines that arm so many tea olives, and they build into a dense, rounded evergreen of fifteen