Jasminum - Plant Encyclopedia Results (Page 3)

Called pikake in Hawaii, Sambac is the plant used to flavor the jasmine tea and making perfumes. Perfect houseplant, takes both sun or shade, Jasminum Sambac is a beautiful fragrant everbloomer for your home and garden. Grand Duke is a slow grower and grows as a bush. It has the biggest of all sambacs tripple cauliflowered (camellia-like shaped) fragrant flowers. Excellent foliage of deep green ruffled leaves on strong rigidly erect canes; easily produces its typically solitary flower if provided richly fertilized warm soil, bright light and even levels of humidity. It has bushy growth habit; trim regularly to avoid legginess. Avoid chill to prevent flower bud drop. This variety is relatively shade tolerant, slow growing and compact, thus is good for potting and indoor culture.

New hybrid variety Supreme has elongated leaves and larger flowers that often come in bunches.

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Jasminum sambac 'Grand Duke of Tuscany' is a cultivated jasmine variety known for its very full, rosette-like flowers. The blooms are double to fully double, with many tightly layered petals that give them a compact, rounded appearance similar to small gardenias. Flowers open creamy white and retain their shape well as they mature. The fragrance is strong, rich, and sweet, making this cultivar one of the most aromatic forms of Arabian jasmine.

Called pikake in Hawaii, this is the plant used to flavor the jasmine tea and making perfumes. Perfect houseplant, takes both sun or shade, Jasminum Sambac is a beautiful fragrant everbloomer for your home and garden.

This variety is a slow grower, with pale green pointed leaves and double flowers with elongated narrow petals. Prefers filtered light, but will tolerate full sun.

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This is a naturally occurred hybrid that originated at Top Tropicals nursery in Florida. It is a cross between varieties Mali Chat and Arabian Nights. It has a compact habit similar to Arabian Nights, growing as a bush; growth rate is a little slower that Arabian Nights but not as slow as Malichat.

Flowers are double, small, 1/2 inch, sometimes have a garland-like structure similar to Mali Chat, but more resemble a small rose bud. Flowers very often turn pink.

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French hybrid from the 1920s of Jasminum beesianum x Jasminum officinale: vigorous climbing vine with fragrant pale pink June flowers very quickly fading to a mother of pearl white. Will not bud until the plant is well established. Considered hardy to Zone 7. Flowering period - Early to midsummer. Long tube that flares out (salverform) on a loose cyme bearing 5 to 6 light pink, fragrant flowers. When it is in bloom the hummingbirds flock to it.

If you are looking for a Jasmine with fragrance and strong growth to fill your growing area, J. 'Tortuosum' is the one. This vigorous, heavy grower has clusters of delicately fragrant star-white blooms that emerge on the growing tips. Blooming throughout the year. Hardy Zone 9 and higher. Grows to 3' in container, minimum temperature 50°, everbloomer. Nari Bhatia: "Jasminum Tortuosum (Sun-A-Jaji) The sweet fragrance of this creeper blooms almost throughout the year. The star shape flowers look very delicate yet they remain open for long period of time. Grown around temples in the south. The flowers are used for pooja".

Small dark green pinnate foliage. Compact attractive shrub or climber with dark green leaves and bright yellow flowers that are 1" across, with the petals shaped into a shallow cup. Fragrance of this variety is very delicate and fruity. The flowers make a beautiful contrast with leaves. Blooms spring through fall, although in warm climates flowers may even appear in winter.

Star-shaped, fragrant 1 inch flowers in summer. Three-part dark green glossy leaves, vining stems. Evergreen woody scandent shrub to train up a wall or as a wall shrub in a conservatory. Small lanceolate leaves in groups of three, summer flowers are fragrant, simple star shaped, white and held on the plant in vertical groups.

It is a native species to various countries in Africa and Arabia; and an invasive species in parts of the Americas.

Evergreen, woody vine which climbs into tree canopies. Stalked leaves are opposite and trifoliate, with the terminal leaflet larger (to 7 cm long) than the other two (to 5 cm). Leaflets pubescent with pointed tips. Flowers white and fragrant, blooming at night in clusters at leaf axils, petals fused into a narrow tube with 5-7 terminal lobes in a star-shape. Fruit is a small, fleshy, round, black berry.

One of the best jasmines for the Deep South, especially on sandy soils. This is one of the most valuable plants in landscaping. It grows wonderfully in mass plantings, very fast growing but not invasive and well-contollable by pruning. The more you cut it, the bushier it gets, forming a nice dense cloud of dark green foliage with yellow double flowers scattered like a bright cover. It is rambling, open evergreen shrub with long, slender, arching stems that will climb like a sprawling vine if given support. The flowers are borne in early spring and sporadically into summer. They are semidouble with 6-10 petals, almost 2" across, and slightly fragrant at night. Use it to trail over fences or walls, to cover unwanted views and ugly corners. It is spectacular in masses and adds interest to mixed shrub hedges and screens. Use it for erosion control on banks or slopes, the long trailing canelike stems will take root where they touch the ground. Blooms on the previous season's growth, so prune soon after flowering. Excellent for cool greenhouse or outdoors in mild climates.

Bright green, rather shiny leaves form an attractive background to the star-shaped, fragrant flowers. Closed flower buds are pink- or red-tinted.

Once established, it is fairly drought-tolerant, although it will require some additional watering during extended dry spells.