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Herbaceous plant-- purple jasmine

Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, Purple jasmine: herbs, up to 1 meter high. Roots chubby, obconic, black or dark brown. Stem erect, Terete, much branched, glabrous or sparsely pilose, nodes slightly inflated. Leaf blade ovate or ovate-triangular, entire, both sides glabrous.

Purple jasmine: herbs, up to 1 meter high. Roots chubby, obconic, black or dark brown. Stem erect, Terete, much branched, glabrous or sparsely pilose, nodes slightly inflated. Leaf blade ovate or ovate-triangular, entire, both surfaces glabrous, veins elevated. Flowers often fascicled with branch ends, involucral bracts campanulate, ca. 1 cm, 5-lobed, lobes triangular-ovate; perianth purplish red, yellow, white or variegated, tall dish-shaped, tube length 2-6 cm, eaves 2.5-3 cm in diameter, 5-lobed; flowers open after noon, fragrant, withered before noon the next day. Achenes globose, 5-8 mm in diam., leathery, black, surface rugose; seeds endosperm powdery. The florescence is from June to October and the fruiting period is from August to November.

Purple jasmine

Native to tropical America. It is often cultivated in the north and south of China for ornamental flowers, sometimes in the wild. Roots and leaves can be used for medicine and have the effects of heat-clearing and detoxification, promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation and nourishing. Seed powder can go to facial mole acne.

Purple jasmine

Nature likes mild and humid climatic conditions, is not cold-resistant, and the aboveground parts die in winter. The underground parts in the south of the Yangtze River can safely survive the winter and become perennial grass flowers, and new plants will continue to grow in spring next year. Open-field cultivation requires deep, loose and fertile loam, and pot cultivation can use general flower culture soil. It grows better in slightly shaded places. Flowers bloom from evening to early morning, close in strong light, grow and blossom well if there is shade in summer, and defoliation often occurs in the scorching sun. Like good ventilation environment, summer has the effect of mosquito repellent.

Purple jasmine

Blue jasmine and purple jasmine are not of the same family and genus. Jasmine belongs to Oleaceae Jasminum evergreen shrubs or vines, blue jasmine belongs to blue snow family, blue jasmine belongs to evergreen semi-climbing or erect shrubs, purple jasmine belongs to purple jasmine family perennial herbs.

Plant culture:

Purple jasmine: chastity, simplicity, exquisite, conjecture, suspicion, mature beauty, timidity, cowardice.

 
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