Species · genus Jasminum · Oleaceae

Summer Jasmine

Jasminum officinale L.

Also known as: Poet's Jasmine · Common Jasmine · Jasmine · Jessamine · White Jasmine

Growth habit

scrambling shrub

Native range

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Iran, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, West Himalaya

Reference · J. officinale

Cultivars of J. officinale

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under J. officinale yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.

Jasminum officinale is a scrambling shrub from the foothills and slopes of the Himalaya, Iran, and southwest Asia, where it climbs through other vegetation in bright, airy positions. Give it the brightest indirect light you can, with some gentle direct sun tolerated, and let the top inch of mix approach dry before watering again. It wants steady but not soggy moisture, so err toward the drier end and provide free-draining soil.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 5-10d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 10 days

Humidity

Medium

Temperature

7–24 °C

Soil mix

Fertile, well-draining mix kept evenly moist

Propagation

Semi-ripe cuttings or layering

Fertilizing

Balanced liquid feed monthly through spring and summer

Growth rate

Fast

Flowering

Fragrant white summer flowers, pink in bud

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 5-10d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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