Pink jasmine

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Pink jasmine
Pink jasmine (Jasminum beesianum)

Pink jasmine ( Jasminum beesianum )

Systematics
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Olive family (Oleaceae)
Tribe : Jasmineae
Genre : Jasminum
Type : Pink jasmine
Scientific name
Jasminum beesianum
Forrest & Diels

The pink jasmine ( Jasminum beesianum ) is a climbing wood from the olive family (Oleaceae). The distribution area is in western China. The species is sometimes used as an ornamental plant because of its flowers.

description

The pink jasmine is a deciduous, weakly climbing, 1 to 3 meter high shrub with very thin, grooved branches and hairy young shoots. The leaves are opposite on stems 0.5 to 3 millimeters long. The leaf blade is simple, ovate, lanceolate, 1 to 4 inches long, 0.3 to 1.8 inches wide, pointed and with a rounded base. Both sides are olive green and sparsely hairy. One to three barely visible first-order nerve pairs are formed. The flowers stand individually or in small groups of up to five and grow on stems 0.2 to 1.8 centimeters long. The calyx is five to seven lobed, hairless or shaggy and 3 to 10 millimeters long. The crown is red to purple, funnel-shaped, 0.9 to 1.5 centimeters long and has four to eight 3 to 9 millimeter long tips. As fruit 5 to 12 millimeters long and 5 to 9 millimeters wide are black, round to elliptical, berries formed.

The species blooms from November to June, the fruits ripen from June to November.

The number of chromosomes is .

Distribution and ecology

The distribution area of ​​the pink jasmine is in western China in the provinces of Guizhou , Sichuan and Yunnan . It grows in steppes and dry forests at an altitude of 1000 to 3600 meters on fresh, slightly acidic to slightly alkaline, sandy-loamy to loamy, moderately nutrient-rich soils in light to partially shaded locations. The species loves warmth and is only moderately frost hardy.

Systematics and research history

The pink jasmine ( Jasminum beesianum ) is a species from the section Jasminum , genus Jasminum , which is assigned to the tribe Jasmineae, family Oleaceae . The species was first described by George Forrest and Ludwig Diels in 1912 .

use

The pink jasmine is sometimes used as an ornamental plant because of its decorative flowers.

proof

literature

  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 355.
  • Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 15: Myrsinaceae through Loganiaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 1996, ISBN 0-915279-37-1 , pp. 312 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora of the woods
  2. ^ A b Liguo Fu, Nan Li, Thomas S. Elias, Robert R. Mill: Jasminum beesianum . In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 15: Myrsinaceae through Loganiaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 1996, ISBN 0-915279-37-1 , pp. 312 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Roloff et al .: Flora of the Woods , p. 355
  4. ↑ a b Jasminum beesianum. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed February 4, 2012 .

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