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Trachelospermum asiaticum (Siebold & Zucc.) Nakai

Asian jasmine, Asian jasmine, Chinese ivy, Asian-jasmine, Asiatic jasmine

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Summary

Trachelospermum asiaticum, the Asiatic jasmine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae and it is native to Asia. Its flowers resemble stars, so it is also referred to as yellow star jasmine or Asian star jasmine. This is a fast growing evergreen vine, often used to cover fences, walls, and similar surfaces. It is heat- and cold- tolerant, and grows even in shady areas.

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

About the genus · Trachelospermum

Trachelospermum, is a genus of evergreen woody vines in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1851. All species are native to southern and eastern Asia.

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

Family
Apocynaceae
Described by
(Siebold & Zucc.) Nakai
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast +15
Wild records
1419 in range· 954 open

At a glance

Warmest month
28°C
Aug, mean day; nights 23 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1867mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jul 282 mm (CHELSA)
Light
15–35DLI
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 October in the northern hemisphere (May to October at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 1867 mm a year, wettest July at 282 mm, driest December at 54 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 35 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 2.2 °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 Malouetia asiatica Siebold & Zucc.; Melodinus cavaleriei H.Lév.; Microchonea lucida Pierre; Parechites borneanus Miq.; Trachelospermum asiaticum subsp. brevisepalum (C.K.Schneid.) Tsiang and 13 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to October in the northern hemisphere (May to October 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 (1317 mm of 1867 mm) falls in May to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 21.6 °C against a yearly mean of 15.0 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to April.

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 1867 mm a year, wettest July at 282 mm, driest December at 54 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1867 mm a year at the habitat, 1317 mm of it May to October. Wettest month July at 282 mm, driest December at 54 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1372 mm to 3167 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: 15 to 35 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 35 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 14, the highest 90th-percentile month 37).

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 2.2 °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 2.2 °C, the absolute minimum -0.7 °C, 7 frost nights in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 28.8 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 1.2 °C in January (across the envelope cells -4.2 °C to 10.8 °C), warmest day 28.0 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 2.2 °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: 56 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 7 °C in Jan to 28 °C in Aug; mean night from 1 °C in Jan to 23 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1867 mm of rain a year, most in Jul. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 996 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -0.7 °C and the 99th-percentile day 28.8 °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°frost28.8° 99th-percentile day (undated)-0.7° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 15–35RH 56–68 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 996 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 °C7 / 4–168 / 5–1711 / 8–1916 / 14–2221 / 17–2524 / 21–2727 / 24–2928 / 26–3025 / 23–2720 / 18–2415 / 12–2110 / 7–17
Night °C1 / -4–112 / -3–115 / 0–149 / 6–1714 / 11–2018 / 15–2222 / 20–2423 / 20–2520 / 17–2315 / 10–209 / 4–164 / -1–13
Rain mm60 / 33–14775 / 44–169129 / 68–222141 / 93–238170 / 119–299240 / 162–451282 / 163–402248 / 144–374229 / 169–414148 / 54–25491 / 49–21054 / 24–156
DLI17 / 14–1922 / 19–2427 / 25–3033 / 30–3535 / 32–3732 / 28–3532 / 29–3633 / 30–3527 / 24–2924 / 19–2518 / 16–2015 / 14–18
RH %56 / 53–6357 / 54–6358 / 56–6359 / 57–6462 / 59–6566 / 62–6968 / 65–7267 / 63–7064 / 62–6761 / 57–6459 / 55–6357 / 54–62

Each figure is the median across the 996 grid cells holding the 1387 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 1095:6382 (35.225, 139.125). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -0.7 °C, 1st-percentile night 2.2 °C, 99th-percentile day 28.8 °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 996 distinct grid cells holding the 1387 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1095:6382 (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 35.00_139.375, lapse-corrected +134 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 203 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, Hainan, China Southeast, Tibet, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Ogasawara-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Malaya· introduced: Arkansas
Kew's description“climber” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker35.549, 139.203 · in the densest population, 805 records (57% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 1419 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 954 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 22 km away. 125 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 32 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 1419 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: 岸本年郎, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2); 胡正恆(Jackson Hu), CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2).

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

Tracheolospermum. II Lignans from Trachelospermum asiaticum.
Fumiko Abe, Tatsuo Yamauchi (1986) · Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
Trachelospermum. IV. Glycosides of 19.ALPHA.-hydroxyoleanane-type triterpenoids from Trachelospermum asiaticum.
Fumiko Abe, Tatsuo Yamauchi (1987) · Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
The ether-soluble lignans of Trachelospermum asiaticum var. intermedium
Sansei Nishibe, SUEO HISADA, Isao Inagaki (1971) · Phytochemistry
Lignans of Trachelospermum asiaticum var. intermedium. I.Isolation and Structures of Arctiin, Matairesinoside and Tracheloside
ISAO INGAKI, SUEO HISADA, Sansei Nishibe (1972) · Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
Isolation of phenolic compounds and spectroscopic analysis of a new lignan from Trachelospermum asiaticum var. intermedium.
Sansei Nishibe, Kazuko Okabe, SUEO HISADA (1981) · Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
Matairesinol-4,4′-di-O-β- D -glucopyranoside from Trachelospermum asiaticum var. intermedium
Sansei Nishibe, SUEO HISADA, Isao Inagaki (1973) · Canadian Journal of Chemistry
Pregnane glycosides from Trachelospermum asiaticum.
Fumiko Abe, Tatsuo Yamauchi (1988) · Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
In Vitro and ex Vitro Adventitious Root Formation in Asian Jasmine (Trachelospermum asiaticum) I. Comparative Morphology
R.C. Apter, E. L. McWilliams, Fred T. Davies (1993) · Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

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 Trachelospermum 1 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
wikidata answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
wikipedia answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19; this build: skipped
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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 86 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.