Trees and Shrubs
A division of the Camden Park catalogues that is not clearly defined. In broad terms it includes all plants with woody stems except conifers and fruit trees and shrubs.
Jacquinia aurantiaca Ait.
Frost tender, evergreen shrub with lance-shaped leaves and racemes of orange flowers. To 1.2m. [RHSD].
Jasminum bidwillii Vis.
Jasminum bidwilli is correctly named Jasminum didymum G.Forst. subsp. lineare (R.Br.) P.Green, which see for further information. It is recorded separately here to assist identification.
Jasminum didymum G.Forst. G.Forst. subsp. didymum
Frost tender, tall woody climber with very variable three-foliate leaves, the leaflets somewhat ovate to lance-shaped, to 8cm long, and axillary or terminal racemes of pure white flowers, each to 2cm long. [Don].
Jasminum didymum G.Forst. subsp. lineare (R.Br.) P.Green
Fully-hardy semi-shrub with some twining branches with tri-foliate leaves and small, fragrant cream flowers, to 1cm, usually in autumn. [FNSW, Wrigley, Don]. See also Jasminum didymum G.Forst. subsp. didymum.
Jasminum fruticans L.
Frost hardy, dense, upright, evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub with alternate, pinnate leaves composed of 3 leaflets, and terminal cymes of up to 5 salverform, slightly fragrant yellow flowers, to 1.5cm across, in summer. To 1.5m by 1.5m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Jasminum glaucum Vahl.
Don relates Jasminum ligustrifolium Lam. to Jasminum glaucum Vahl., a climbing shrub from South Africa with lance-shaped leaves and a three-flowered inflorescence. This plant may be the Jasminum glaucum of Solander and Aiton described in the Hortus Kewensis of 1789.
Jasminum humile L.
Frost-hardy semi-evergreen or evergreen, erect or arching, bushy shrub with alternate, pinnate leaves, with up to 13 leaflets, and cymes of usually 6, salverform, sometimes fragrant, bright yellow flowers, to 1cm across, from spring to autumn. To 2.5m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Jasminum nudiflorum Lindl.
Half-hardy, slender deciduous shrub with arching shoots bearing solitary, salverform, bright yellow flowers in winter/spring, before the leaves. To 3m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Jasminum odoratissimum L.
Half-hardy evergreen climber with alternate, bluntish, pinnate leaves, with 3 leaflets, and fragrant whitish-yellow flowers. [Don].
Jasminum officinale L.
Frost-hardy, vigorous, twining, woody, semi-deciduous climber with opposite, pinnate leaves, composed of 5-9 leaflets to 6cm long, and terminal umbel-like cymes of salverform, very fragrant white flowers, to 2cm across, in summer and autumn. To 12m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Jasminum officinale L. var. grandiflorum Kab.
See Jasminum officinale L. for more information on the species. More shrubby and robust than the type grandiflorum has larger, pink-tinged white flowers, to 4cm across. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Jasminum pubescens Willd.
Frost-tender, climbing or straggling evergreen shrub with opposite, ovate, downy leaves and dense clusters of large, often double white, fragrant flowers in the cooler seasons. [RHSD, Hortus].
Jasminum rigidum Zenk.
Stiff shrub with ovate, leathery leaves and few-flowered cymes of fragrant white flowers. [Hortus].
Jasminum sambac ‘Grand Duke of Tuscany’
A cultivar of Jasminum sambac (L.) Ait. The species is a frost-tender, evergreen twining climber or scrambler of bushy growth, with lustrous leaves in whorls of 3 or opposite, and small cymes of 3-12 salverform, strongly-scented white flowers, 2.5cm across, fading to pink, mainly in summer. ‘Grand duke of Tuscany’ has double flowers, like miniature gardenias. To 3m. [RHSE].
