| Primrose Jasmine |
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| File size | 181540 |
| Original date | 1/31/06 3:33 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/172s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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 ntroduced | Photo: Thingnam Girija |
Botanical name: Jasminum mesnyi Family: Oleaceae (Jasmine family)
Synonyms: Jasminum primulinum
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.
| Photographed in Manipur |