 The species has been hybridised in cultivation with "Osmanthus fragrans"; the resulting hybrid is named "Osmanthus" × "fortunei" Carr.It is mentioned twice in the "Kojiki", the oldest surviving historical record of Japan.The first mention, under the name "hihiragi", is in connection with the name of a kami, "Hihiragi-no-sono-hana-madzumi-no-kami" (translated by Chamberlain as ""Deity Waiting-to-see-the-Flowers-of-the-Holly""), with the word "madzumi" ("rarely seen") being used to describe the plant's characteristic of its flowers rarely blossoming, as interpreted by the scholar Tominobu.