The most fragrant indoor potted plant: one bloom fills the whole room with fragrance, blooms profusely and is easy to care for
Introduction
Potted green plants are essential decorative items for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and pleases the mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary, Issue 1325" introduces you to an extremely fragrant indoor plant.
Today's featured plant
Plants that emit fragrance have always been top-grade potted plants, such as orchids, Daphne odora, and osmanthus. Keeping one indoors lets you enjoy the flowers and the scent. The flower introduced today is called the tiger-head jasmine (Jasminum sambac 'Tiger Head'), currently the most "noble" jasmine, a variety that flower enthusiasts compete to obtain.
Tiger-head jasmine
Tiger-head jasmine is an evergreen small shrub of the genus Jasminum in the family Oleaceae, a horticultural variety of traditional jasmine, double-flowered and large-flowered, reaching the size of a gardenia flower when fully open. There are currently two varieties, round-leaf tiger-head and pointed-leaf tiger-head, differing mainly in their leaves. It is a new variety, still relatively scarce in number, and not many people grow it.
Large flowers, strong fragrance
The tiger-head jasmine flower resembles a miniature peony, with neatly arranged petals, round and full. Compared with traditional single-flowered jasmine, its ornamental value is greatly improved; its fragrance is rich and lingers far. One bloom can fill the whole room with fragrance, so you can even skip air freshener. It is pleasing to the eye and refreshing to the heart.
Suitable for planting in autumn
Tiger-head jasmine is a bit harder to care for than ordinary jasmine, but it is not very difficult either. This variety has unstable traits and fears high heat, so in summer it needs shading and ventilation; in the other seasons it can be managed roughly. The round-leaf type is easier to handle than the pointed-leaf type. The best planting season is autumn, when the crisp autumn air and vigorous growth give a high survival rate.
An excellent potted plant
Tiger-head jasmine has a relatively long flowering period, especially when potted indoors with suitable temperature and proper care; it can bloom from spring to autumn, flowering three times a year. In addition, as a small woody flowering plant, it has good branching and tolerates pruning. It can not only be enjoyed as an indoor potted plant, but can also be pruned and shaped into a bonsai tree.