Arabic jasmine

Arabic jasmine
	Arabian jasmine ( Jasminum sambac )
Systematics
	Asterids
	Euasterids I
Order :	Mint family (Lamiales)
Family :	Olive family (Oleaceae)
Genre :	Jasminum
Type :	Arabic jasmine
Scientific name
	Jasminum sambac
	L.

Arabian jasmine ( Jasminum sambac ) is a plant of the genus Jasminum of the family of the Oleaceae (Oleaceae). The species occurs wildly from Bhutan to India and is cultivated worldwide.

Appearance

The Arabian jasmine grows as an upright or climbing shrub . The leaves are undivided and round to ovate with a partially heart-shaped base. They are paper-like and bare except for the underside of the leaf veins. The flowers are in sympodial three-, rarely five-flowered inflorescences, occasionally also individually. The bracts are needle-shaped. The strongly fragrant flowers have an eight to nine-part, not or slightly hairy calyx and a white crown.

Purple-black spherical berries are formed as the fruit.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 26, less often 39.

use

The flowers are processed into jasmine absolute and jasmine tea .

swell

Arabian jasmine in the Flora of China

Individual evidence

↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Jasminum sambac. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved May 5, 2020.
↑ Jasminum sambac at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

Web links

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[WCSP-1] Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Jasminum sambac. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved May 5, 2020.

[IPCN-2] Jasminum sambac at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis