Jasminum officinale

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   shrub

Height: 30 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 30.
Width: 15 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Lifespan: perennial
Origin: Middle East to China
Bloom: early summer
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Features: flowers, fragrance
USDA Zones: 7 to 10
Flower features: pink, white
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Read about Jasminum officinale in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Jasminum officinale, linn. (J. poeticum, Hort.). Jessamine. Fig. 2008. Long, slender grower requiring support, but scarcely self-climbing, glabrous or very nearly so: lvs. opposite, odd-pinnate, the lateral lfts. 2-3 pairs and rhomboid-oblong-acute, the terminal one longer: fls. white, 2—10 in terminal more or less leafy clusters; calyx-teeth linear, 1/4 -2/3 in. long, or sometimes as long as the rather short corolla-tube; corolla-lobes 4 or 5, oblong, more or less involute on the margins. Kashmir, 3,000- 9,000 ft., Persia, and now widely distributed. B.M. 31. R.H. 1878, p. 428.—Long cult. The glossy foliage and fragrant white summer-blooming fls. render the plant very attractive in the S., where it is hardy. With protection it will stand as far N. as Philadelphia. var. affine, Nichols. (J. affine, Hort.), is a form with larger fls. R.H. 1878, p. 428. There are double-fld. forms; also with yellow- and silver-edged lvs.


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