Although its flowers are small, pale and shielded from view, they have the color of the moon, and what with the well-known legend of Wu Gang, there is an inseparable link between the moon and the osmanthus.
她的花朵雖然細小幽深，卻生得月亮的顏色；加上「吳剛伐桂」的傳說家喻戶曉，月亮與桂樹的關係於是密不可分。