Jasminum grandiflorum L.
പിച്ചകം
| Family: | OLEACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Spanish Jasmine | ||||
| Synonym: | Jasminum grandiflorum (L.)Kobuski. | ||||
| Common Name: | Common jasmine | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | Throughout the year | ||||
| Distribution: | Subtropical North West Himalayas | ||||
| Habitat: | Cultivated, often found as escape | ||||
| Uses: | Ornamental, aphrodisiac, essential oil yielding, perfume production | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Jasminumgrandiflorum are large shrubs. Leaves opposite, petiolate; petiole and midrib margined; leaflets glabrous, dark green, the upper pair with a broad flat base. Flowers fragrant, in lax axillary or terminal cymes, the stalks of later flowers exceeding the first or central ones. . Calyx teeth 5, linear. Corolla white, sometimes tinged with red outside, lobes 5, oblong, shorter than the tube, involute at the margins. | ||||