When Does Winter Jasmine Bloom? A Detailed Guide to Its Flowering Period

Plants and trees announce the seasons, and insects and birds tell the farming calendar. In nature, the earliest messengers of spring are winter jasmine and ducks in the water. Winter jasmine gets its name because it blooms earliest among all flowers, and right after its bloom comes the spring when a hundred flowers blossom together. Let us take a look below at when winter jasmine blooms!

When does winter jasmine bloom?

1. Winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum): it blooms from February to March each year, with flowers appearing before the leaves. The flowering period of winter jasmine is about 40—50 days.

2. Wild winter jasmine (Jasminum mesnyi): its flowering period is usually in early April, about one month later than winter jasmine, and clearly later than plum blossoms.

Flowering times of other varieties

1. Red jasmine (Jasminum beesianum): also called red-flowered jasmine, a climbing shrub with four-angled, striped young branches. Leaves are simple, alternate, ovate-lanceolate, with acuminate tips. Cymes are terminal with 3 flowers; the corolla is red to rose-red and fragrant. Flowers and leaves appear together, and the flowering period is in May. It is produced in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces.

2. Spanish jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum): also called large-flowered jasmine, an upright shrub with drooping, angular branches. Leaves are opposite, pinnately compound, with 5~7 leaflets that are elliptical or ovate with acuminate tips. Flowers are solitary or several in terminal cymes, white and fragrant. The flowering period is from June to July. It is produced in Yunnan and Guangxi. It is also distributed in Vietnam, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India.

3. Jasminum floridum: also called yingxia, a semi-evergreen shrub with spreading, arching and drooping branches. Odd-pinnately compound leaves are alternate, with 3~5 leaflets that are ovate or elliptical. Flowers are yellow, forming terminal many-flowered cymes. The berry is elliptical-ovate and greenish-brown. The flowering period is in May, and the fruiting period is in December. It is native to central and northern China.

4. Yunnan yellow jasmine (Jasminum mesnyi): also called Yunnan winter jasmine, an evergreen vine-like shrub with hairless, square, slightly ridged branchlets. Leaves are opposite, with 3 leaflets; the terminal leaflet is larger, long-elliptical-lanceolate, tapering at the base into a short stalk, while the 2 lateral leaflets are small and stalkless. Flowers are solitary, pale yellow, with dark spots; the petals are longer than the flower tube, often nearly double, and fragrant. The flowering period is from March to April. It is native to Yunnan and is now cultivated in various places.

5. Jasminum officinale: Jasminum officinale is a semi-evergreen shrub. The branchlets are slender and angular; leaves are opposite, pinnately compound, with 5~9 leaflets that are ovate or lanceolate with sharp tips. Cymes are terminal, with several white, fragrant flowers. The flowering period is from June to July. It is produced in Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet.