About Lemon-scented jasmine
Jasminum azoricum, the lemon-scented jasmine, is a species of flowering plant in the olive family. It is an evergreen twining vine native to the Portuguese island of Madeira. The compound leaves consist of 3 bright green leaflets. The fragrant white star-shaped flowers appear in panicles from the leaf axils in summer, evolving from deep pink buds. The species is critically endangered in its native Madeira. Reports of remaining populations vary between 6 and 50 individual plants in two separate areas, Funchal and Ribeira Brava. Jasminum azoricum, which does not tolerate freezing temperatures, has long been in cultivation in Europe as a greenhouse plant with records in Netherlands since 1693 and England from about 1724.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Jasminum azoricum
- Genus
- Jasminum
- Family
- OLEACEAE
- Habit
- Climbing shrub
- Habitat
- Grown as garden plant
- Native to
- Azores Islands
- Flowering & fruiting
- January-April
- Conservation status
- CR
Local Names
- Tamil
- எலுமிச்சை ஊசிமல்லி
- Kannada
- ನಿತ್ಯಮಲ್ಲಿಗೆ Nitya mallige
- Malayalam
- തോട്ടമുല്ല
Oleaceae
Olive/Jasmine family
Lemon-scented jasmine belongs to the Oleaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
Explore the OLEACEAE family →Snap it. Know it.
Point your camera at lemon-scented jasmine or any plant and SASYA identifies it instantly — on-device, offline, and private.