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Jasminum sambac

Botanic Family

Oleaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Aiton

Common Names

• Arabian Jasmine
• Tuscan Jasmine
• Beli Phul (Nepali)
• Mo-le-hwa
• Mo li hua (Pinyin)
• Jazmin de Gemela
• Pikake
• Ban Mallika (India)
• Bel Phul (India)
• Dok My Li (Laos
• Thai)
• Sambac Jasmine
• Jasmín de Arabia
• Diamela
• Mawk-sam-pai (Myanmar)
• Sabe (Myanmar)
• Sabe-gyi (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Guangdong
• Guangxi - China
• India
• Sri Lanka

Natural Habitats

• Coastal forest. Cultivated as an ornamental. Flowers used to flavour tea
• various medicinal uses & perfumary

Flowering Times

• All year

Fruiting Times

Sometimes scandent glabrous evergreen woody twiner or erect shrub or tree with axillary & terminal cymes or umbels with bracts to 10mm long of scented 40mm wide white flowers aging to purple/pink, tube 15mm, lobes to 13mm, villous calyx tube 3mm x 3mm with 10 lobes 6mm long, corolla tube 13mm long with 10 lobes, almost semi-double. Twin berries purple-black to 10mm diameter, leaves 70mm x 35mm glabrous above except puberulent midvein, glabrous beneath, mucronate leaves waved, branches downy

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• RHS A-Z
• net
• Llamas 2003
• FI
• de Candolle
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• VOPR
• USNH
• F Indochine
• JAA
• Kew