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Jasminum lanceolaria

Botanic Family

Oleaceae

Author

Roxburgh

Propagation

C.L.S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

• Sieu-hing-hwa
• Qing xiang teng (Pinyin)
• Ba ro (Vietnam)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Cambodia
• Anhui
• Fujian
• Gansu
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hongkong
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Shaanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang -China
• Andaman Islands
• Assam - India
• Ryukyu Islands - Japan
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• forest
• streamsides
• jungles
• coppices
• montane areas
• woodland. Flowers used for scenting tea
• medicinal uses

Flowering Times

• Mar-Oct (China) May (India)

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Mar (China)

Scandent or erect glabrous shrub or evergreen woody twining climber with glabrous stems, glabrate, coriaceous 3-5 foliolate leaves 90mm x 45mm. Terminal or axillary panicles, cymes or corymbs of fragrant white 35mm flowers dull red outside, 35mm long tube, 10mm lobes, calyx glabrous to 3.5mm long, corolla tube to 20mm long with 4-5 lobes to 11mm, black berry to 18mm long x 15mm across

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Herklots 1976
• FOC
• Chujian 2001
• FI
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• F Indochine
• JAA
• Kew