Arabian jasmine
ದುಂಡು ಮಲ್ಲಿಗೆवनमल्लिकाஇருள்நாறி
Jasminum sambac (L.) Aiton
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.8 m
- wide
- 1.1 m
Oleaceae
Also called Arabian Jasmine, Mogra
Formerly Jasminum blancoi, Jasminum heyneanum, Jasminum quinqueflorum, Jasminum undulatum, and 7 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Bhutan to IndiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from RHS and Missouri Botanical Garden, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS part; Missouri Botanical Garden full, part
- Height
- 51 cm to 3.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 86 cm to 1.3 mRead from RHS and Missouri Botanical Garden, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; Missouri Botanical Garden 4–5 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and Missouri Botanical Garden, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -2.8 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from RHS and Missouri Botanical Garden, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 1 °C; Missouri Botanical Garden -6.7 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Jazmín, Diamela
- Chinese
- 雙瓣茉莉, 茉莉, 茉莉叶
- French
- Jasmin d'Arabie, Jasmin sambac
- root
- Bunga Melur, मोग्रा, Sampaguita
- Indonesian
- Melati Putih, Melati
- Japanese
- マツリカ
- Chinese (China)
- 茉莉花
- Greek
- Ίασμος ο αραβικός, Γιασεμί το Αραβικό, Φούλι
- Italian
- Gelsomino d'Arabia
- Russian
- Жасмин самбак
- Arabic
- فل عربي
- Thai
- มะลิ, มะลิซ้อน, มะลิลา
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Missouri Botanical Garden, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Jasminum sambac (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.