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Trachelospermum jasminoides

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Lindley) Lemaire

Common Names

• Chinese Star Jasmine
• Confederate Jasmine
• Star Jasmine
• Luo shi (Pinyin)
• Chinese Star-jessamine
• Confederate Jessamine
• Tayok-sabe (Myanmar)
• Mo se (Vietnam)
• Ke-teika-kazura (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Anhui
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Henan
• Hong Kong
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Shandong
• Shanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Shikoku - Japan
• Korea
• Malaysia
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Scrub & forest
• forest edge
• shrubland
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Mar-Aug (China)
• Mar-Jun (Vietnam)
• May (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Dec (China)
• Nov-Jan (Vietnam)

Woody evergreen twining liana or climbing shrub with glabrescent young branches. Leaves 100mm x 45mm, pubescent beneath. Terminal & axillary cymes to 100mm with bracts to 2mm, of 25mm scented white aging yellow flowers, pilose calyx to 6mm long, corolla tube to 10mm long, lobes to 10mm in terminal clusters, 5 sepals 5mm long pubescent outside, 5 petals 10mm long. Paired divaricate follicles to 300mm long x 10mm round

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• FOC
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• Llamas 2003
• Bodkin
• Exotica
• USNH
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• FOJ
• Kew
• Wiart 2
• IFV