Jasminum sambac

Arabian Jasmine ( Jasminum sambac )

Arabian Jasmine ( Jasminum sambac ) is a species of the genus Jasminum of the family Oleaceae ( Oleaceae ). The species occurs wild in front in India and is cultivated worldwide.

Appearance

The Arab jasmine grows as an upright or climbing shrub. The leaves are undivided and round to ovoid with some heart-shaped base. They are paper-like and bare up to the underside of the leaf veins. The flowers are in sympodial three, more rarely fünfblütigen inflorescences, sometimes individually. The bracts are acicular. The strongly scented flowers have an eight - to nine -part, not or slightly hairy calyx and a white crown. As fruit purple - black spherical berries are formed.

Use

The flowers are made into Jasmine Absolute and Jasmine.

Swell

• Arabian jasmine in the Flora of China