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Trachelospermum asiaticum

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Siebold & Zuccarini) Nakai

Common Names

• Ya zhou luo shi (Pinyin)
• Teika-kazura (Japan)
• Ryūkyū-teika-kazura (Japan)
• Okinawa-teika-kazura (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Fujian
• Gansu
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Yunnan - China
• Assam - India
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Ryukyu Islands
• Shikoku - Japan
• Korea
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Scrub & montane forest
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jul (China )
• Oct (Vietnam)
• May-Jun (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Nov (China)

Woody evergreen twiner or tree with stems becoming glabrous. Mucronate glabrous leaves 145mm x 45mm slightly coriaceous. Terminal & axillary cymes to 70mm long with bracts, of 25mm across scented white flowers aging yellow, calyx to 4mm long, the lobes often white puberulent, corolla tube to 10mm, lobes to 10mm with apricot centres, 5 petals 10mm long x 8mm with tube 14mm long. Fruit twin pods to 300mm long x 5mm.

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• FOC
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• F Indochine
• FOJ
• Kew
• IFV