Re: mystery shiny leaved shrub
- Subject: Re: mystery shiny leaved shrub
- From: &* C* M* <j*@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:58:45 -0700
Diane,
You might want to wait a few days and expose the flowers to some
sun. If they mature and whiten up and become fragrant then it is the
double 'Grand Duke' form of the Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac).
This is the form used in Asia to flavor jasmine tea and in Hawaii for
fragrant leis. The thick, very dark foliage shown in your photo
suggests that your plant may not be getting enough light. Increasing
its light level might encourage more flowering.
Vinca rosea is a semi-vining annual (it may well live over from
season to season in a greenhouse or in a very mild climate, but it is
never an upright shrub, and I doubt that it would live fore 30 years!).
On May 14, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Diane Whitehead wrote:
I have been growing this shrub for over 30 years in my unheated
greenhouse. I thought it was Vinca rosea, seed of which I had
bought from Park's. It has shiny evergreen leaves and has never
flowered. Today I decided I had waited long enough and began to cut
it down. To my surprise, I found it was flowering. Perhaps it has
done so every year and I never noticed the green flowers.
Can anyone identify it?
I have put a picture on my Picasa account:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ldiane.whitehead/
MysteryEvergreen#
