Plant Profile: Jasminum dichotomum (Rose bud jasmine)
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Plant Profile: Jasminum dichotomum (Rose bud jasmine)
This relatively rare jasmine picture was shared by Rafique sb. It has been tentatively identified as Jasminum dichotomum. It is not Jasminum nitidum (Please see the entry for Jasminum nitidum).
http://www.fleppc.org/ID_book/jasminum%20dichotomum.pdf
"Scrambling shrub or woody climber, evergreen, to 8 m (26 ft) tall, with climbing stems longer; stems glabrous. Leaves opposite, appearing simple, oval to roundish oblong, glossy, leathery, 5-7 cm (2-4 in) long, with short pointed tips. Flowers white (pink in bud), quite fragrant, opening at night, in clusters at leaf axils; petals fused into a narrow tube to 2.5 cm (1 in) long, with 5-9 terminal lobes about 1.3 cm (0.5 in) long, spreading in star-shaped fashion. Fruit a small, fleshy, roundish, black, 2-lobed berry
Restricted to areas with average minimum temperatures above 1.7°C (35°F) (Broschat and Meerow 1991). Easy to grow; propagated in cultivation from cuttings; may not tolerate soggy root zones (Chabot 1952). Will grow near coasts where protected from salt spray (Menninger 1964). Flowers all year, most abundantly in spring; ripe fruit found from early summer into early winter (Hammer 1996). Seeds dispersed by birds and raccoons, with dense plots of seedlings often seen arising from raccoon droppings (Hammer 1996)."
Photo by: M. Rafique
http://www.fleppc.org/ID_book/jasminum%20dichotomum.pdf
"Scrambling shrub or woody climber, evergreen, to 8 m (26 ft) tall, with climbing stems longer; stems glabrous. Leaves opposite, appearing simple, oval to roundish oblong, glossy, leathery, 5-7 cm (2-4 in) long, with short pointed tips. Flowers white (pink in bud), quite fragrant, opening at night, in clusters at leaf axils; petals fused into a narrow tube to 2.5 cm (1 in) long, with 5-9 terminal lobes about 1.3 cm (0.5 in) long, spreading in star-shaped fashion. Fruit a small, fleshy, roundish, black, 2-lobed berry
Restricted to areas with average minimum temperatures above 1.7°C (35°F) (Broschat and Meerow 1991). Easy to grow; propagated in cultivation from cuttings; may not tolerate soggy root zones (Chabot 1952). Will grow near coasts where protected from salt spray (Menninger 1964). Flowers all year, most abundantly in spring; ripe fruit found from early summer into early winter (Hammer 1996). Seeds dispersed by birds and raccoons, with dense plots of seedlings often seen arising from raccoon droppings (Hammer 1996)."
Photo by: M. Rafique
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Re: Plant Profile: Jasminum dichotomum (Rose bud jasmine)
I have smelled this jasmine many times in the morning but could not find the fragrance. Is it fragrant in evening?
BTW, It is surely not jasmine multiflorum the buds of multiflorum are not red, see this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... florum.jpg
BTW, It is surely not jasmine multiflorum the buds of multiflorum are not red, see this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... florum.jpg
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Re: Plant Profile: Jasminum dichotomum (Rose bud jasmine)
@Khabbab it is fragrant too in the morning although intensity is more in the evening.khabbab wrote:I have smelled this jasmine many times in the morning but could not find the fragrance. Is it fragrant in evening?
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Re: Plant Profile: Jasminum dichotomum (Rose bud jasmine)
Then wats the name of this Jasmine, blooming in my garden?
And yes its fragrant.
And yes its fragrant.
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Re: Plant Profile: Jasminum dichotomum (Rose bud jasmine)
Javed sb. its same, in my opinion ie Jasminum dichotomum.
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Re: Plant Profile: Jasminum dichotomum (Rose bud jasmine)
I recall, Nursery wala called it as "Indian Jasmine".
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Re: Plant Profile: Jasminum dichotomum (Rose bud jasmine)
Yes Rafique Sb, i just goggled Jasminum dichotomum and found that my flowers match with it.
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Re: Plant Profile: Jasminum dichotomum (Rose bud jasmine)
I am wondering why Jasminum dichotomum is so uncommon in Karachi? A very similar jasmine, Jasminum azoricum, is usually present.
http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/JAS ... ORICUM.htm
http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/JAS ... ORICUM.htm