The leaves of Sweet osmanthus are leathery, elliptic, lanceolate or oblong in shape, about 7 to 14.5cm long and 2.6cm to 4.5cm wide. The apex of the leaves gradually becomes sharp, the base gradually narrows and wedge-shaped or wide wedge-shaped, the whole or upper part of the leaves has fine serrations, and both sides are hairless.
There are 3 to 7 leaflets in the shape of obovate or obovate ellipse, asymmetric on both sides, 1 to 6 cm long, 0.5 to 3 cm wide, round or blunt at the top.
Osmanthus is a cyme, usually clustered in the axils of the leaves, there are several flowers, corolla is yellow white, yellow or orange, grow about 3 to 4 mm.
The flowers are usually terminal or axillary. Most of them gather in umbrellas. The flowers are white. There are 5 petals, which are long oval.
