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.
Photographed in Manipur
Identification credit: Thingnam Sophia
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