• Scientific Name: Osmanthus heterophyllus (G.Don) P.S.Green
• Ref: Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 22:508. 1958
• Synonyms:
  • Olea aquifolium Siebold & Zucc.
  • O. ilicifolia Hassk.
  • Osmanthus acutus Masam. & T.Mori
  • O. aquifolium (Thunb.) Siebold
  • O. bibracteatus Hayata
  • O. heterophyllus var. acutus (Masam. & T.Mori) T.S.Liu & J.C.Liao
  • O. heterophyllus f. subangustatus (Makino) Murata
  • O. integrifolius Hayata
• English Common Name: holly osmanthus, holly olive, false holly
• Chinese Common Name: 柊树 zhōngshù, 冬树 dōngshù
• Japanese Common Name: ヒイラギ [柊/柊木/疼木] hiiragi
• Family: Oleaceae
• Genus: Osmanthus
• Distribution: Taiwan [Japan]
• Photo: Hangzhou Botanical Garden, Zhejiang

Shrubs or small trees 2-8 m. Branchlets and petiole pubescent when young. Petiole 5-10 mm; leaf blade oblong- elliptic or elliptic, 4.5-6(-7) × 1.5-2.5(-3) cm, leathery, base cuneate or broadly so, margin entire or with 3 or 4 pairs of spiny teeth 5-9 mm; midrib raised on both surfaces, adaxially pubescent and especially denser near petiole; primary veins adaxially raised, abaxially obscure. Cymes fascicled in leaf axils, 5-8-flowered; bracts 2-2.5 mm, puberulent or glabrous. Pedicel 5-6 mm, glabrous. Calyx 1-1.5 mm. Corolla white; tube 1-2 mm; lobes 2.5-5 mm. Stamens ca. as long as corolla lobes, attached to base of corolla tube. Drupe dark-purple, ovoid, ca. 1.5 × 1 cm. (Flora of China)