There are a lot of osmanthus flowers in Guilin, and they bloom in October, usually around the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The flowers are so clear that they can be removed from the dust, and so thick that they can overflow from afar, that they are a masterpiece. Especially in the mid-autumn, the series of laurel blossomed, the night is quiet when the round, the wine to enjoy the laurel, the fragrance of the old nose, people refreshing.

Osmanthus suitable for planting in a ventilated place; like a clean and ventilated environment, intolerant of smoke and dust hazards, often can not blossom after the victim; afraid of flooding and waterlogging, if the flood damage, the root system is blackened and rotted, the leaves are first the tip of the leaf scorched.

Subsequently, all the leaves withered and fell off, which led to the death of the whole plant; not very hardy, but relative to other broad-leaved evergreen species, or a more hardy species.

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Osmanthus flowers are evergreen, lush and leafy, and blossom in the fall, with an overflowing scent. In the garden in the application of common, often as a garden landscape tree, there are solitary planting, planting, there are clumps into forest planting. In classical Chinese gardens, osmanthus often with buildings, mountains, stone machine with a clump of shrub-type plants in pavilions, platforms, buildings, pavilions nearby.

Osmanthus aroma, containing a variety of spice substances, can be used for food or extract spices. China has formed Hubei Xianning, Hunan Taoyuan, Anhui Liu'an, Guangxi Guilin, Guizhou Zunyi, Hubei Wuhan and other concentrated osmanthus planting region.

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