What are the alternative names and elegant names for night-blooming jasmine?
Night-blooming jasmine is a twining shrub in the family Asclepiadaceae, genus Telosma. It is also called night fragrant flower and night orchid fragrance. Night-blooming jasmine has slender branches and blooms in summer and autumn; its yellow-green flowers open in the evening and give off a rich, heady fragrance. In the south it is often used to decorate courtyards, windowsides, pond edges and pavilions, and it is also a semi-wild vegetable eaten for its fresh flowers and flower buds.

Growth habits of night-blooming jasmine:
Night-blooming jasmine mostly grows in woodland or among shrubs. It prefers a warm, humid environment with plenty of sunlight, good ventilation, and loose, fertile soil; it is drought-tolerant and poor-soil-tolerant, but not waterlogging-tolerant and not cold-tolerant, and it stops growing after leaf drop in winter; after the weather warms in spring, it sends out branches and leaves, with an axillary bud or flower bud at each node, and as it grows it continuously produces side branches and puts out inflorescences, generally blooming successively from May to October; when in bloom it is fragrant, and even more strongly fragrant at night. It sets fruit in winter.
Morphological characteristics of night-blooming jasmine:
The branchlets of night-blooming jasmine are weak, hairy, and contain milky sap. Leaves are opposite; the leaf blades are broadly ovate, cordate to oblong-ovate, 4-9.5cm long and 3-8cm wide, with a shortly acuminate tip and a deeply cordate base, entire margins, 7-9 palmate basal veins, and hairs on the margins and veins. Umbellate cymes are axillary, with as many as 30 flowers; the corolla has 5 lobes, oblong, yellow-green, with a fresh fragrance that is stronger at night, hence the names "night-blooming jasmine" and "night fragrant flower"; the corona has 5 lobes, fleshy, shorter than the anthers, borne on the gynostegium, with an acuminate tip; there is 1 pollinium per locule, elliptical, erect. The follicle is lanceolate, 7.5cm long, with a thick exocarp and no hairs. The seeds are broadly ovate, about 8mm long, with white silky hairs at the tip.
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 being in the spotlight, 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 impulse and then forget all about it afterwards.
Variety classification of night-blooming jasmine:
There are 12 species in the same genus as tuberose, but only tuberose is cultivated and used, and there are not many varieties, mainly the following:
(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-maturing variety that blooms year-round, most abundantly in autumn;
(5) Pearl: a double-flowered variety, with stems 75cm-80cm 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 a rich, heady fragrance. In the south it is often used to decorate courtyards, windowsides, pond edges and pavilions. It is also a semi-wild vegetable eaten for its fresh flowers and flower buds. 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 opacity, and so on.
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