What are the alternative names for night-blooming jasmine? This article explains

Growing habits of night-blooming jasmine:

Night-blooming jasmine mostly grows in woodland or thickets. It prefers a warm, humid, sunny, well-ventilated environment with loose, fertile soil; it is drought-tolerant and poor-soil-tolerant, not waterlogging-tolerant and not cold-tolerant, and stops growing after leaf fall in winter; after spring warms up it sprouts branches and leaves, with an axillary bud or flower bud at each node, and as it grows it continuously produces side branches and sends out inflorescences; it generally blooms successively from May to October, and the flowers are fragrant when they open and even more fragrant at night. It fruits in winter.

Morphological characteristics of night-blooming jasmine:

Night-blooming jasmine has weak, hairy branchlets with milky sap. Leaves are opposite; the leaf blades are broadly ovate, cordate to oblong-ovate, 4-9.5 cm long and 3-8 cm wide, with a short acuminate apex, a deeply cordate base, entire margins, 7-9 basal palmate veins, and hairs on the margins and veins. The umbel-like cymes are axillary and may have as many as 30 flowers; the corolla has 5 oblong, yellow-green lobes and a fresh fragrance that is stronger at night, hence the names "night-blooming jasmine" and "night fragrant flower"; the corona has 5 fleshy lobes, shorter than the anthers, borne on the gynostegium, with an acuminate tip; there is 1 pollinium per chamber, elliptical and upright. The follicles are lanceolate, 7.5 cm long, with a thick exocarp and no hairs. The seeds are broadly ovate, about 8 mm long, with white silky hairs at the apex.

Flower language of night-blooming jasmine:

The flower language of night-blooming jasmine is a pure heart, happiness, beauty, independence and rebellion.

Flower divination: you radiate a contemporary air, like adventurous and exciting things, and enjoy the limelight, hoping to become the focus of others' attention. You are good at showing your best side and also actively cover up your shortcomings; in love you act on momentary impulses and forget all about it afterward.

Variety classification of night-blooming jasmine:

The genus Polianthes has 12 species, but only tuberose is cultivated and used, and there are not many varieties; the main ones are as follows:

(1) Albino: a single-flowered variety formed by bud mutation, with pure white flowers;

(2) Dwarf pearl: a dwarf variety;

(3) Var.flore-pleno Hort: a double-flowered variety;

(4) Mexican early bloomi: a single-flowered, early variety that blooms year-round, most abundantly in autumn;

(5) Pearl: a double-flowered variety with stems 75 cm-80 cm tall, short inflorescences, many densely packed flowers and a short corolla tube;

(6) Tall double: a large-flowered double variety with long flower stems;

(7) Variegale: leaves long and curved, with golden-yellow stripes

Uses of night-blooming jasmine:

Night-blooming jasmine is mainly cultivated for ornamental purposes. Night-blooming jasmine has slender branches and blooms in summer and autumn; its yellow-green flowers open in the evening and give off bursts of strong, pungent fragrance. In the south it is mostly used to decorate courtyards, windowsides, pond edges and pavilion sides. It is also a semi-wild vegetable whose fresh flowers and flower buds are eaten. It has the effect of clearing the liver and brightening the eyes, and can treat red, swollen and painful eyes, measles affecting the eyes, corneal opacities and so on.