Wax Jasmine

Jasminum volubile Jacq.

JAZZ-mah-num vah-LOO-bah-lee

Oleaceae

Explanation of name: Generic name is ancient. Volubile refers to the twining growth.

Natural range: Australia

Description: Twining or sprawling vine with glossy leaves, these sometimes with yellow variegation. Flowers fragrant, having numerous white petals, with tiny deltoid sepals (vs. these much larger and conspicuous in most other local species)

Landscape uses: As a fragrant-flowered vine on a trellis or support, sometimes pruned into a hedge.