Jasminum grandiflorum L.

Sprawling shrubs to several m long; branches slender, weak, terete, ridged or grooved, mostly solid. Leaves pinnate, lobed or dissected, mostly 5-7-foliolate, to 8 cm long, 3-6 cm wide; leaflets ovate, apically acute, obtuse or rounded, sometimes mucronulate, basally obtuse, rounded or truncate, glabrate, the mid-vein prominent, the minor venation obscure; petiole 1-4 cm long, glabrous, the rachis sometimes narrowly winged; petiolules short or wanting, basally pubescent in the axil. Inflorescences few-flowered, terminal cymes, the terminal peduncle shorter than those subtending it, sometimes with entire, foliaceous bracts; pe-duncles 1-2 cm long, slender, demarcated from the similar, 5-15 mm long pedicels by minute bractlets. Flowers fragrant; calyx cup 1-3 mm long, glabrous, the lobes linear, glabrate, to 10 mm long; corolla white, drying yellowish, salverform, the tube 15-20 mm long, slender, sometimes curved, the lobes mostly 5, narrow, 15-25 mm long. Fruits not seen.

It is a subtropical plant. It grows well in sunny dry locations. It needs a temperature above 7°C. In Pakistan it grows between 500-1,500 m altitude. In Sichuan and Yunnan.

The flowers are used to scent tea. The dried leaves are used to scent Chinese tea leaf.

Plants can be grown by semi-ripe cuttings.