When Does Winter Jasmine Bloom? Latest Blooming Season Timeline

Flowers and trees herald the seasonal terms, insects and birds tell the farming seasons. In nature, the earliest to report the news of spring are the winter jasmine and the ducks in the water. The winter jasmine gets its name because it blooms earliest among all flowers, and right after it blooms comes the spring when a hundred flowers blossom together. Let us take a look below at when the winter jasmine blooms!

When does the winter jasmine bloom?

1. Winter jasmine: blooms from February to March each year, flowers first and leaves later; the blooming period of the winter jasmine is about 40—50 days.

2. Wild winter jasmine: the blooming period is usually early April, about one month later than the winter jasmine, and noticeably later than the plum blossom.

Blooming times of other varieties

1. Red jasmine: also called red-flowered jasmine, a climbing shrub, young branches four-angled with stripes. Simple leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate. Cymes of 3 flowers terminal, corolla red to rose-red, fragrant. Flowers and leaves appear together, blooming period in May. Produced in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces.

2. Common jasmine: also called large-flowered jasmine, an erect shrub, branches drooping, angular. Leaves opposite, pinnately compound, leaflets 5~7, elliptic or ovate, apex acuminate. Flowers solitary or several in terminal cymes, white, fragrant. Blooming period June~July. Produced in Yunnan and Guangxi. Also distributed in Vietnam, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India.

3. Winter jasmine (Jasminum floridum): also called yingxia, a semi-evergreen shrub, branches spreading, arching and drooping. Odd-pinnate compound leaves alternate, leaflets 3~5, ovate or elliptic. Flowers yellow, in terminal many-flowered cymes. Berries elliptic-ovate, green-brown. Blooming period May, fruiting period December. Native to central and northern China.

4. Yunnan yellow jasmine: also called Yunnan winter jasmine, an evergreen vine-like shrub, branchlets hairless, square, with shallow angles. Leaves opposite, leaflets 3, long elliptic-lanceolate, the terminal one larger, base gradually narrowed into a short stalk, the 2 lateral ones small and stalkless. Flowers solitary, pale yellow, with dark spots, petals longer than the floral tube, often nearly double, fragrant. Blooming period March~April. Native to Yunnan, now cultivated everywhere.

5. Summer jasmine: summer jasmine is a semi-evergreen shrub. Branchlets slender, angular, leaves opposite, pinnately compound, leaflets 5~9, ovate or lanceolate, apex acute. Cymes terminal, with several flowers, white, fragrant. Blooming period June~July. Produced in Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet.