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Jasminum multiflorum (Burm.f.) Andrews

Jazmin de papel; Star jasmine, Star Jasmine, mao mo li, star jasmine

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Summary

Jasminum multiflorum, commonly known as star jasmine, is a species of jasmine in the family Oleaceae.

Text from Wikipedia, “Jasminum multiflorum”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Jasminum

Jasmine is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family of Oleaceae. It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Jasmines are widely cultivated for the characteristic fragrance of their flowers.

Text from Wikipedia, “Jasmine”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Oleaceae
Described by
(Burm.f.) Andrews
Native to
Bangladesh, India, Nepal +5
Wild records
70 in range· 49 open

At a glance

Warmest month
34°C
Apr, mean day; nights 22 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1385mm/yr
8 wet months · peak Jul 320 mm (CHELSA)
Light
26–43DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a summer growing season, June to September in the northern hemisphere (June to September at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 1385 mm a year, wettest July at 320 mm, driest December at 12 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 26 to 43 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 9.2 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Jasminum congestum Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Jasminum gracillimum Hook.f.; Jasminum multiflorum f. pubescens (Retz.) Bakh.f.; Jasminum multiflorum var. nicobaricum Thoth.; Jasminum pubescens (Retz.) Willd. and 4 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, June to September in the northern hemisphere (June to September at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1005 mm of 1385 mm) falls in June to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 27.2 °C against a yearly mean of 25.2 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to March.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1385 mm a year, wettest July at 320 mm, driest December at 12 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1385 mm a year at the habitat, 1005 mm of it June to September. Wettest month July at 320 mm, driest December at 12 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 869 mm to 2966 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 26 to 43 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 26 to 43 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 22, the highest 90th-percentile month 47).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 9.2 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 9.2 °C, the absolute minimum 4.6 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 44.6 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 14.3 °C in January (across the envelope cells 7.8 °C to 20.8 °C), warmest day 33.8 °C in April (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 9.2 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 52 to 68% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 25 °C in Jan to 34 °C in Apr; mean night from 14 °C in Jan to 25 °C in May. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1385 mm of rain a year, most in Jul. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 56 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was 4.6 °C and the 99th-percentile day 44.6 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.10°20°30°40°50°44.6° 99th-percentile day (undated)4.6° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0200400600800mm rainDLI 26–43RH 52–68 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 56 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C25 / 18–2928 / 20–3132 / 24–3434 / 27–3833 / 28–3931 / 26–3630 / 25–3329 / 25–3229 / 26–3229 / 26–3228 / 23–3025 / 19–29
Night °C14 / 8–2115 / 10–2219 / 14–2422 / 17–2625 / 20–2725 / 20–2824 / 20–2624 / 20–2623 / 19–2520 / 17–2418 / 13–2315 / 9–21
Rain mm15 / 2–3319 / 1–4020 / 1–6343 / 3–118101 / 11–240163 / 74–538320 / 99–750300 / 127–675222 / 139–425135 / 34–29435 / 8–20412 / 2–69
DLI31 / 24–3736 / 29–4141 / 36–4443 / 38–4741 / 33–4732 / 26–3826 / 23–3226 / 22–3330 / 27–3431 / 27–3529 / 25–3229 / 23–33
RH %55 / 48–6254 / 45–6352 / 42–6455 / 41–6759 / 45–6764 / 53–7067 / 62–7368 / 64–7265 / 62–7061 / 51–6857 / 47–6555 / 48–62

Each figure is the median across the 56 grid cells holding the 61 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1352:5083 (22.375, 74.175). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 4.6 °C, 1st-percentile night 9.2 °C, 99th-percentile day 44.6 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 56 distinct grid cells holding the 61 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1352:5083 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 22.50_74.375, lapse-corrected -73 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 224 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBangladesh, India, Nepal, West Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam· introduced: Lesser Sunda Is., Samoa, Cook Is., Caroline Is., Marianas, Marshall Is., Hawaii, Mexico Central, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.
Kew's description“scrambling shrub” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker28.748, 80.842 · in the densest population, 21 records (30% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 70 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 49 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 23 km away. 470 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 9 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 70 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0; (c) Kurt Miller, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); (c) ni_ki, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Cricket Raspet, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Darren Oh, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); (c) Andrew Garn, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Jasminum multiflorum, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Inter-specific variation in headspace scent volatiles composition of four commercially cultivated jasmine flowers
Paramita Bera, Jhansi Narmada Reddy Kotamreddy, Tanmoy Samanta, Saborni Maiti (2015) · Natural Product Research
Development of a time-gated system for Raman spectroscopy of biological samples
Florian Knorr, Zachary J. Smith, Sebastian Wachsmann‐Hogiu (2010) · Optics Express
Secoiridoid glycosides from Jasminum multiflorum
Ya‐Ching Shen, Chia‐Yin Lin, Chung‐Hsiung Chen (1990) · Phytochemistry
Interspecies variation of chemical constituents and antioxidant capacity of extracts from Jasminum sambac and Jasminum multiflorum grown in Malaysia
Katrina Mohamad Khidzir, Sit Foon Cheng, Cheng‐Hock Chuah (2015) · Industrial Crops and Products
Novel Secoiridoid Lactones from Jasminum Multiflorum
Ya-Ching Shen, Chung-Hsiung Chen (1989) · Journal of Natural Products
Phenolic profiling of differentJasminumspecies cultivated in Egypt and their antioxidant activity
Seham S. El‐Hawary, Hala M. El-Hefnawy, Samir M. Osman, Mohamed A. El Raey (2019) · Natural Product Research
IDENTIFICATION OF TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS INFECTION IN JASMINE
I. Kamenova, Scott Adkins, Diann Achor (2006) · Acta Horticulturae
Effects of Jasminum multiflorum leaf extract on rodent models of epilepsy, motor coordination and anxiety
Jonas I. Addae, Ramish Pingal, Kheston Walkins, Renee Cruickshank (2017) · Epilepsy Research
Jasmultiside, a New Secoiridoid Glucoside from Jasminum multiflorum
Han-Ying Chen, Ya‐Ching Shen, Chung‐Hsiung Chen (1991) · Journal of Natural Products
Phytochemical screening and antioxidant activity of Jasminum multiflorum (pink Kakada) leaves and flowers
M. Kumaresan, M. Kannan, A. Sankari, CN Chandrasekhar (2019) · Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Jasminum 5 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 78 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.