re: Trachelospermum

 

Greetings from the Algarve ( Blue sky and 21'C at 10.00hrs).
"The Hillier Manual of Trees and Shrubs" gives the following distinguishing features: 
 
T. asiaticum
leaves  oval 2-2.5 cm long.
flowers 2cm across, creamy-white with a buff-yellow centre, becoming yellow with age, and stamens exserted.
 
T. jasminoides
leaves narrowly oval 5-7.5 cm long
flowers 2.5cm across, white becoming cream with age
 
Now I must go out into my garden and check which species I have ...I had also just assumed it was jasminoides!
 
Boa sorte,
 
Brian Ottway
----- Original Message -----
From: g*@ker.forthnet.gr
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Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 8:27 AM
Subject: Trachelospermum

Can someone help me distinguish between jasminoides and asiaticum?  I have an established one of over 30 years that I always assumed was a jasminoides, until last month, in  a friend's garden in Italy I saw two different kinds, very similar except in perfume...my friend actually took exception to the perfume of the one most like mine, which she said was asiaticum, likening it to dog urine, and regretted having planted it.
Thank you
Cali Doxiadis, Corfu, Greece.
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