Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Jasminum polyanthum
Common name
White Jasmine, Chinese Jasmine, Jasmine
Family
Oleaceae
Where found
Garden escape. Mainly in forest and near streams. Coast, ranges, and Southern Highlands, north from Port Kembla
Notes
Introduced climber with stems to 10 m long. Branches take root where they touch the ground. Suckers from the roots. It climbs rapidly into the tree canopy and covers vegetation at all levels, blocking light and restricting the growth and regeneration of other species. Fruit fleshy. Stems cylindrical or angular, hairless or hairy with minute hairs. Leaves opposite each other, 6-25 cm long, compound, with 5–9 leaflets each 1–9.5 cm long, 5–35 mm wide, hairless, margins entire, tips pointed. Flowers fragrant, white to pinkish on the front, pink or red outside and in bud, tubular, the tube 10–25 mm long, with 4-6 lobes each 6–16 mm long. Flowers in 5–50-flowered branched clusters. Fruit black, 6–11 mm in diameter, almost round. Flowers mostly spring–summer.
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PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Jasminum~polyanthum (accessed 21 January, 2021)
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