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    This is a reasonable sized shrub. Slightly tender if I remember the label properly.
    The flowers are tiny (about1/4 of an inch across) and very highly, sweetly scented.
    Needle like leaves in whorls (I think).
    Hard to get a really close up image though.
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    Not Sarcococca nor Pittosporum . Their leaves are far too big.
     
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      Jasmine? Trachelosperum jasminoides?
       
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      Google image search thinks it's Olearia ericoides. The flowers look smaller than the Olearia that I'm familiar with (O. haastii) which has bigger flowers in clumps.
       
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      Google suggested -
      Olearia solandri (coastal daisy-bush) or Olearia ramulosa (twiggy daisy-bush).
       
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      Not sure, the flowers on Olearia look different. thanks
       
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      Is it a white flowered variety of Westringia fruticosa (Australian rosemary)?
       
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      Westringia-fruticosa (from a website)
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      Those names do not ring a bell. Labels which go missing are really annoying.
      Thanks all the same.
       
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      anonflower.JPG Had a closer look at the flowers and they really do look like tiny Olearia ones so I will go with that.
      Neither of us can remember where we bought it. Our usual Nursery does not list it on their plant list.
      This is the best I can do to show the flower. The leaves on one of the suggested Olearia are spoon shaped which these do not appear to be.
       
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        Solved. Came to us as Shawia solandri which is now Olearia solandri. As soon as we saw that name we remembered.
         
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