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Common name: Primrose jasmine, Japanese jasmine, Japani chameli जापानी चमेली (Hindi)
Botanical name: Jasminum mesnyi Family: Oleaceae (Jasmine family)
Synonyms: Jasminum primulinum
Primrose jasmine is one of the most valuable plants in landscaping. It
grows wonderfully in mass plantings, very fast growing but not invasive and
well-contollable by pruning. The more you cut it, the bushier it gets, forming
a nice dense cloud of dark green foliage with yellow double flowers scattered
like a bright cover. It is rambling, open evergreen shrub with long, slender,
arching stems that will climb like a sprawling vine if given support. Without
support, it grows in a fountainlike mound 5-10 ft in height and
spread. The stems are square in cross section, and green, becoming woody with
age. The glossy dark green leaves are opposite and divided into three
leaflets, each 1-3 in long. The trumpet shaped flowers
are borne in early spring and sporadically into summer. They are semidouble
with 6-10 petals, almost 2 in across, and lightly fragrant.
Primrose jasmine makes a fine specimen shrub, growing in a fountainlike mound
of glossy green foliage with bright yellow, not very fragrant flowers in
early spring and sporadically into the summer.
Primrose jasmine is native to southwestern China.
Identification credit: Thingnam Sophia
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