Star Jasmine - #201
"Trachelospermum jasminoides"
- The Star Jasmine is Angiosperm
- Natural Habitat: The Star Jasmine is Native to Japan and China. Its know as a weed in China where it grows on walls and trees
Germination Process: This Shrub grows approx. 12 to 24 inches a year. During the colder months the Jasmine will stop producing flowers and die. The star Jasmine grows the best indoors at a temperature of about 55 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit
Ethnobotany: The Star Jasmine is a versatile plant that can be used to cover walls, fences, or embankments. It can also be trained up pillars, arches ,trelllises, or pergolas. Because of the intense fragrance of the flowers, the plants should be placed where people gather or stroll. The plants are also suitable for window boxes or hanging baskets.
Leaf Pattern:The leaves are glossy and dark green and the flowers are fragrant, 1 inch wide,
5-petalled white blooms that are borne on cymes. They are late spring bloomers
with a wonderful fragrance.
Type of Seed: Jasmine flowers can be pollinated by either insects or by the gardener (using a cotton swab or small paint brush), taking
care not to damage the flower stems. In the late summer jasmine plants produce seeds within bean-like seed pods, which need to be watched carefully if you intend to plant them in order to produce seedlings. These jasmine seeds pods can break open suddenly once the pod is ripe and spill the seeds everywhere.Catching the ripe pods before they open means that you can save the seeds. Look for the pod turning brown, as this is the sign that it has ripened and is about to burst.
Species of Animal/Plant that occur: The most common insects of the Star Jasmine are Spider mites, mealy bugs, and scales. The mites damage plant foliage by feeding on the sap inside plant leaves. When the Star Jasmine has spider mites, its leaves have discolored patches, appear scorched
and eventually fall off or die. Mealy bugs form white masses on plant foliage that look like cotton or waxy growths. Plants with mealy bugs often have problems with black sooty mold. Eventually, mealy bugs can cause leaves to fall off and twigs to die. Jasmine plants sometimes become infested with black scales. These have a rounded appearance and are less than 1/4-inch in length. Black scales are a type of soft scale insect that feeds on plant sap and excretes a honeydew substance that black sooty mold grows on.
Current Research: A new Terriera species found on fallen leaves of Trachelospermum asminoides (Apocynaceae) is described, illustrated, and designated as Terriera simplex. This taxon is distinguished from its closest relatives by unbranched paraphyses and asci with truncate or subtruncate apices. The type specimen is deposited in the Reference Collection of Forest Fungi of Anhui Agricultural University, China (AAUF). The leaves and stems of T. jasminoides have been found to contain indole alkaloids. Five indole alkaloids, coronaridine, voacangine,
apparicine, conoflorine, and 19-epi-voacangarine have been isolated.
SUMMARY:
Star jasmine is a monoecious, twining, evergreen, woody perennial. In areas where it is winter hardy (e.g., southern California, southwestern and
southeastern U.S.) it may be grown as a vine, a sprawling shrub or as a groundcover. Axillary and terminal clusters of salverform, sweetly fragrant, starry,
creamy white flowers appear in late spring with sporadic additional bloom in summer. Flowers are attractive to bees. Shiny, oval, opposite, dark green leaves (to 3.5” long) on wiry dark brown stems. Stems exude a milky sap when broken. In the St. Louis area, it is most frequently grown in pots that must be brought indoors in winter. Star jasmine is also commonly called confederate jasmine. Star jasmine is in a different family (Apocynaceae) than the true jasmines in genus Jasminum (Oleaceae).
Star jasmine is a monoecious, twining, evergreen, woody perennial. In areas where it is winter hardy (e.g., southern California, southwestern and
southeastern U.S.) it may be grown as a vine, a sprawling shrub or as a groundcover. Axillary and terminal clusters of salverform, sweetly fragrant, starry,
creamy white flowers appear in late spring with sporadic additional bloom in summer. Flowers are attractive to bees. Shiny, oval, opposite, dark green leaves (to 3.5” long) on wiry dark brown stems. Stems exude a milky sap when broken. In the St. Louis area, it is most frequently grown in pots that must be brought indoors in winter. Star jasmine is also commonly called confederate jasmine. Star jasmine is in a different family (Apocynaceae) than the true jasmines in genus Jasminum (Oleaceae).
References: Terriera simplex, a new species of Rhytismatales fromChina
Authors: Gao, Xiao-Ming; Zheng, Chun-Tao; Lin,Ying-Ren
Source: Mycotaxon, Volume 120, April-June 2012 , pp. 209-213(5)
Publisher: Mycotaxon
Fatima, T., Ijaz, S., Crank, & Wasti, S. (1987). Indole alkaloids from Trachelospermum jasminoides.
Planta medica, 53(01), 57-59.
Authors: Gao, Xiao-Ming; Zheng, Chun-Tao; Lin,Ying-Ren
Source: Mycotaxon, Volume 120, April-June 2012 , pp. 209-213(5)
Publisher: Mycotaxon
Fatima, T., Ijaz, S., Crank, & Wasti, S. (1987). Indole alkaloids from Trachelospermum jasminoides.
Planta medica, 53(01), 57-59.