Gelsemium

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Gelsemium in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Gelsemium (from the word Gelsemino, the Italian name of the true jessamine). Loganiaceae. Climbing shrubs, with evergreen foliage and yellow flowers. Glabrous, twining, shrubby plants, with opposite, rarely whorled lvs., and showy, hypogynous, perfect, regular, yellow and very fragrant ns., in axillary and terminal cymes, the pedicels scaly-bracted: calyx imbricated, deeply 5-parted; corolla funnel- form, 5-lobed, imbricated in the bud; stamens 5, epipetalous; ovary solitary, superior, 2-celled; ovules numerous, on narrow placentae; style slender, 4-cleft: fr. an elliptic, septicidal caps., flattened contrary to the partition; valves boat-shaped, 2-cleft at the apex; seeds flattened and winged.—There are 2 species in the genus, one American the other Chinese. The American or Carolina yellow jessamine is a well-known woody twiner of the S., bearing evergreen foliage and a profusion of bright yellow, very fragrant fls. The cymes of the Chinese species are terminal and trichotomous. Our species is very desirable for covering banks and fences in any soil. It is also grown occasionally in conservatories. The rhizomes and roots are used medicinally as a nervine, antispasmodic and sedative. The true jessamine is Jasminum officinale (Oleaceae) of Eu. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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