Osmanthus is native to Southwest China, South China and East China, and now there are wild resources in Sichuan, southern Shaanxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Zhejiang. Since 1771, Chinese osmanthus was imported to Britain through Guangzhou and India, it has been rapidly expanding, and is now commonly cultivated in many countries in Europe and the United States, as well as in Southeast Asia, and has become an important fragrant flower plant.

Osmanthus, osmanthus is one of China's traditional top ten flowers, the main varieties of four categories, mostly categorized by flower color:

1, Dan Gui

Dan Gui flowers orange-yellow in color, strong smell, thick leaves, dark color. General autumn flowering and flower color is very deep, mainly in orange, orange and red and vermilion.

Dan Gui is divided into full red, weir red gui, the first red, vermilion gui, early red dan gui, defeat breeding dan gui and hard leaf dan gui.

2, golden laurel

Golden laurel flowers are golden yellow, and the smell is a little lighter than danggui, thicker leaves. Golden laurel blooms in the fall, and the flower color is mainly yellow (lemon yellow and golden yellow).

Golden laurel is divided into long-stalked golden laurel, ball laurel, golden ball laurel, fast-growing golden laurel, narrow-leafed golden laurel, willow-leafed sauvignon blanc, early golden autumn long-stalked golden laurel, and early golden autumn laurel, among many other varieties.

3, silver laurel

Silver laurel flowers are whiter in color, slightly yellowish, with thinner leaves than other laurel trees, and the fragrance of the flowers is almost the same as that of gold laurel not very strong. Silver laurel blooms in the fall, the flower color is mainly white, pure white, cream and yellowish white, very few special will be light yellow.

Silver laurel is divided into jade linglong, willow leaf silver laurel, long leaf early silver laurel, seed silver laurel, white clean, early silver laurel, late silver laurel and nine dragon laurel and so on.

4, four seasons laurel

Flower color is slightly white, or yellowish, aroma is lighter, and the leaves are thinner. The biggest difference with other varieties is that it will bloom in all seasons, but the fragrance of the flowers is also the lightest of the many osmanthus, almost can't smell the fragrance of the flowers.

The four seasons osmanthus is divided into month-to-month osmanthus, four seasons osmanthus, Buddha's top bead, day-scented osmanthus, and heavenly-scented daikaku (heavenly-scented daikaku).

Your two pots of osmanthus should belong to the four seasons osmanthus. Because there is no flower just look at the leaves are thin, the first picture seems to have a bud, silver laurel leaves are also thin, but only in the fall to bloom. Dan Gui and Jin Gui are thick leaves.