A few decades ago, tea olive trees (often accompanied by azaleas and camellias) were standard landscape components in Central Florida. Indeed, the species (Osmanthus fragrans) was cherished for ...

Commonly, you can call the plant tea olive or sweet olive, as both names nod to the sweet scent emitted by the plant's tiny, white blooms. This species belongs to the genus Osmanthus. Osmanthus ...

For the traditional filling, walnuts, sesame seeds and peanuts are stir-fried and peeled, then mixed with melted malt sugar, white sugar, rock sugar, natural rose jam and osmanthus jam.