Widely distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of southern United States and Middle East and China and Japan

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n. Any of several widely distributed evergreen flowering plants, of the genus ''Osmanthus''.

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Osmanthus is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae . Most of the species are native to eastern Asia ( China , Japan , Indochina , the Himalayas , etc.) with a few species from the Caucasus , New Caledonia , Sumatra , and ...