Common name: River Jasmine, Brazilian Jasmine • Tamil: பெருமல்லி Perumalli
Botanical name: Jasminum fluminense Family: Oleacea (Jasmine family)
River Jasmine is a species of Jasmine to which the
name Jasminum azoricum was erroneously applied. River Jasmine
is an evergreen, climbing, woody vine, with young stems densely hairy and
mature stems glabrous. Leaves opposite, trifoliolate, leaf and leaflets
stalked; terminal leaflet larger, to 7 cm (4 in) long, with a stalk to
5 cm (2 in) long; leaflets broadly ovate, pubescent above and below,
with pointed tips. Flowers white, quite fragrant, opening at night,
in broad, branched clusters at leaf axils; petals fused into a narrow,
slightly curved tube to 2.5 cm (1 in) long, with 5-7 terminal lobes
shorter than the tube, spreading in star-shaped fashion. Fruit a small,
fleshy, roundish, black, 2-lobed berry.
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