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Jasminum polyanthum Franch.

Jasmine, Pink jasmine, duo hua su xin

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Summary

Jasminum polyanthum, the many-flowered jasmine, pink jasmine, or white jasmine, is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae, native to China and Myanmar. A strong evergreen twining climber, it is especially noted for its abundant, highly fragrant pink to white flowers.

Text from Wikipedia, “Jasminum polyanthum”, 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
Franch.
Native to
China South-Central, Myanmar
Wild records
43 in range· 23 open

At a glance

Warmest month
25°C
May, mean day; nights 16 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1101mm/yr
9 wet months · peak Jul 230 mm (CHELSA)
Light
21–38DLI
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, May to September in the northern hemisphere (May to September at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 1101 mm a year, wettest July at 230 mm, driest December at 14 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 21 to 38 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -0.7 °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 blinii H.Lév.; Jasminum delafieldii H.Lév.; Jasminum excellens King & Prain.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to September in the northern hemisphere (May 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 (853 mm of 1101 mm) falls in May to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 21.6 °C against a yearly mean of 17.5 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November 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 1101 mm a year, wettest July at 230 mm, driest December at 14 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1101 mm a year at the habitat, 853 mm of it May to September. Wettest month July at 230 mm, driest December at 14 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 787 mm to 1699 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: 21 to 38 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 21 to 38 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 16, the highest 90th-percentile month 41).

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 -0.7 °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 -0.7 °C, the absolute minimum -5.8 °C, about 6 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 30.0 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 5.3 °C in January (across the envelope cells 3.0 °C to 8.7 °C), warmest day 24.9 °C in May (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -0.7 °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 67% 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 15 °C in Jan to 25 °C in May; mean night from 5 °C in Jan to 18 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1101 mm of rain a year, most in Jul. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 35 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -5.8 °C and the 99th-percentile day 30.0 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-10°10°20°30°40°frost30.0° 99th-percentile day (undated)-5.8° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 21–38RH 52–67 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 35 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 °C15 / 13–2218 / 15–2322 / 19–2724 / 22–2925 / 23–2925 / 23–2824 / 22–2824 / 22–2823 / 21–2720 / 19–2517 / 16–2215 / 13–21
Night °C5 / 3–97 / 5–1110 / 8–1413 / 11–1716 / 14–1918 / 16–2118 / 16–2117 / 15–2116 / 14–1913 / 11–179 / 7–135 / 4–9
Rain mm16 / 9–2718 / 10–3425 / 15–5542 / 23–100106 / 77–186184 / 116–275230 / 161–357196 / 140–319137 / 88–19087 / 59–12446 / 28–7314 / 10–22
DLI24 / 16–2731 / 21–3237 / 27–3838 / 31–4135 / 30–3832 / 26–3630 / 25–3531 / 27–3427 / 25–2923 / 19–2621 / 18–2421 / 16–24
RH %57 / 54–7054 / 51–6852 / 49–6554 / 51–6559 / 55–6765 / 61–7167 / 63–7367 / 63–7166 / 62–6965 / 61–6962 / 59–6860 / 57–68

Each figure is the median across the 35 grid cells holding the 43 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 1340:5673 (22.975, 103.675). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -5.8 °C, 1st-percentile night -0.7 °C, 99th-percentile day 30.0 °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 35 distinct grid cells holding the 43 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1340:5673 (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 23.00_103.750, lapse-corrected +260 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 1556 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.
NativeChina South-Central, Myanmar· introduced: Great Britain, Nepal, New Zealand North, New Zealand South
Kew's description“climber” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker24.707, 102.929 · in the densest population, 18 records (42% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 43 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 23 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 141 km away. 1235 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 43 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Lisa Bennett, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Kate McAlpine, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); no rights reserved · CC0; (c) Tony Wills, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2); (c) Christopher Stephens, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA).

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 polyanthum, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Formation of Flower Fragrance Compounds from Their Precursors by Enzymic Action during Flower Opening
Naoharu Watanabe, Shuzo Watanabe, Ryuta Nakajima, Jae‐Hak Moon (1993) · Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry
Two dimeric secoiridoid glucosides from Jasminum polyanthum
Takao Tanahashi, Yukiko Takenaka, Naotaka Nagakura (1996) · Phytochemistry
Benefits of Jasminum polyanthum's natural aromas on human emotions and moods
Xi Xiong, Hexian Jin, Wenhao Hu, Chengcheng Zeng (2023) · Urban forestry & urban greening
Five trimeric secoiridoid glucosides from Jasminum polyanthum
Yukiko Takenaka, Takao Tanahashi, Naotaka Nagakura (1998) · Phytochemistry
Jaspolyside, a secoiridoid glycoside from Jasminum polyanthum
Ya‐Ching Shen, Saho-Ling Lin, Chyh-Chung Chein (1996) · Phytochemistry
Six Secoiridoid Glucosides from Jasminum polyanthum.
Takao Tanahashi, Yukiko Takenaka, Miyako AKIMOTO, Aiko OKUDA (1997) · Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
Evaluation of bioactive compounds from Jasminum polyanthum and its medicinal properties
M.A Jaya Prakkash, R. Ragunathan, Jesteena Johney (2019) · Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics
Plant species first recognised as naturalised for New South Wales over the period 2000-2001
John R. Hosking, Barry J. Conn, Brendan J. Lepschi (2003) · Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Volatiles Emitted from Flowers of γ-Radiated and Nonradiated Jasminum polyanthum Franch. in Situ
Lars Porskjær Christensen, Henrik Jakobsen, Kell Kristiansen, Jørgen Møller (1997) · Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Three Secoiridoid Glucosides Esterified with a Linear Monoterpene Unit and a Dimeric Secoiridoid Glucoside from Jasminum polyanthum
Takao Tanahashi, Yukiko Takenaka, Naotaka Nagakura (1997) · Journal of Natural Products
Secoiridoid Glycosides from Jasminum Polyanthum
Ya‐Ching Shen, Shao‐Ling Lin, Pei‐Wen Hsieh, Chyh‐Cbung Chein (1996) · Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society
Eight Minor Secoiridoid Glucosides with a Linear Monoterpene Unit from Jasminum polyanthum.
Yukio Takenaka, Takao Takahashi, Naotaka Nagakura (1998) · Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin

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

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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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 63 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.