Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Jasminum mesnyi
Common name
Primrose Jasmine
Family
Oleaceae
Where found
Disturbed sites and along streams. Coast and ranges north from the Wollongong district.
Notes
Introduced erect to scrambling shrub to 5 m high. Fruit fleshy. Stems 4-angled, hairless. Leaves opposite each other, compound, with 3 leaflets each 1.5–7 cm long, 5–25 mm wide, hairless, margins entire, tips blunt with a small abrupt point. Flowers fragrant, yellow, tubular, the tube 9–15 mm long, with 5–16 lobes each 11–20 mm long. Flowers single. Fruit black, oval, 6–8 mm in diameter. Flowers mainly spring–summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Jasminum~mesnyi (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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