Jasmine is a really beautiful plant.
Let’s find out more about it!
- Jasmine is a genus of shrubs and vines.
- It belongs in the family of the Oleaceae.
- It contains around 200 species.
- All of them are native to tropical and warm places.
- It is very common in Eurasia and Oceania.
- They are preferred for their distinctive fragrance.
- A number of unrelated plants contain the word “Jasmine” in their common names.
- Jasmine is a really popular name for girls as well.
- Jasmine is the name of a Disney princess as well.
- Jasmine has often 5 or 6 lobes.
- Flowering happens during the summer or spring.
- Its fragrance is often released during the night.
- Jasmine usually bears white flowers.
- It is not poisonous, despite the fact many people believe so.
- From jasmine’s flower, you can make medicines.
- Jasmines grow well in moist, well-drained, sandy loam to clayey garden soil.
- Jasmine can live from 15 up to 20 years in the wild.
- The flowers are typically around 2.5 cm.
- Sometimes its flowers can be yellow.
- Jasmine contains both reproductive organs.
- The main jasmine’s pollinators are the bees and the butterflies.
- The jasmine’s fruits are… berries!
- They actually turn black when ripe.
- Many people believe that have originated in the Himalayas in Western China.
- Jasmine is known in India as the “Queen of the Night”.
- In China, jasmine is a symbol of feminine sweetness and beauty.
- In religious ceremonies it symbolizes represents purity.
- There is also a jasmine tea.
- Jasmine oil is a type of essential oil delivered from the plant.
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