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Jasmine
- Overview There are several types of Jasmine other than true Jasmine (genus jasminum). They include the Confederate Jasmine (genus trachelospermum), Crepe Jasmine (genus tabernaemontana), Cape Jasmine (genus gardenia) and Orange Jasmine (genus murraya). To make matters more complicated, the common names for the various Jasmines are freely applied across genera and species.
- Jasminum
- Overview:
- Arabian Jasmine, Sacred Jasmine, Asian Jasmine, Arabian Jasmine, Morga (jasminum sambac) Hardy in Zones 9 -11. Produces fragrant, waxy white flowers that grow in clusters.
- Brazilian Jasmine (jasminum fluminense)
- Downy or Star Jasmine (jasminum multiflorum) Evergreen, spreading vine that can be trained as a shrub up to 5' to 10' in height. Takes full sun to partial shade. Hardy Zones 9 - 11.
- Gold Coast Jasmine (jasminum dichotomum)
- Primrose Jasmine (jasminum mesnyi)
Hardy Zones 8b -11
- Auburn
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- floridata.com "Primrose Jasmine is a rambling, open evergreen shrub with long, slender, arching stems that will climb like a sprawling vine if given support." "The fragrant trumpet shaped flowers are borne in early spring and sporadically into summer.
- Star Jasmine, Shining Jasmine, Angelwing Jasmine, Confederate Jasmine, Eindmill Jasmine (jasminum nitidum) Hardy in Zones 10 - 11. Produces, fragrant, white, pin-wheel shaped, night blooming flowers from late spring through the summer. If left unattended, the vines can reach 20', but Star Jasmine is usually kept clipped to a hedge 2' to 4' in height.
- Wax Jasmine (jasminum volubile)
- Winter Jasmine Two
varieties of Jasmine also share the moniker Winter Jasmine:
- Pink Jasmine (jasminum polyanthum)
- Hardy Jasmine (jasminum nudiflorum)
- Confederate Jasmine (trachelospermum jasminoides)
Fragrant profusion of small white flowers. Blooms April & May. Twining vine or can be trained to a spreading shrub. Slow to get started. Hardy Zones 7b - 10.
Takes sun or light shade.
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- floridata.com
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- University of Florida
- Dwarf Confederate Jasmine, Small-Leaf Confederate Jasmine, Asiatic Jasmine, Asian Star Jasmine or Minima (trachelospermum asiaticum) Fast growing ground cover. Small yellow flowers.
- Crepe Jasmine (tabernaemontana divaricata)
Hardy in Zones 10b -11.
- University of Florida "This round, evergreen, well-branched shrub has large, glossy, dark green leaves and waxy white, ruffle-edged flowers which are especially fragrant at night."
- Orange Jasmine or Orange Jessamine (murraya paniculata)
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- University of Florida "The small, orange-blossom scented, white flowers and small, red berries appear throughout much of the year. It is difficult to walk within 10 feet of this plant in flower and not notice the fragrance." Grown as hedge or small tree. Blooms late summer and fall. Hardy Zones 9b -11. Can grow to 8' to 12' tall.
- USDA
- Cestrum
- Night Blooming Jasmine or Jessamine, Night Scented Jessamine, Queen of the Night (cestrum nocturnum) Heavily scented shrub that blooms during warm weather.
- Red, Pink or Purple Cestrum (cestrum elegans)
