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Dwarf Jasmine

Jasminum parkeri

Dwarf Jasmine
Photo: Cyrillic at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Dwarf jasmine is a small, domed evergreen shrub, about one foot tall, with tiny oval leaves and clusters of fragrant yellow flowers in early summer. It is grown mainly in containers or trained into topiary forms, and it needs bright light with well-drained soil.

Family
Oleaceae (Olive family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Bright indirect, Full sun
Water
Water when the top of the soil feels dry, and avoid soggy roots.
Soil
Free-draining potting mix with some grit or perlite.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect from frost, as it is not fully hardy.
How easy
Moderate

About

Jasminum parkeri, the dwarf jasmine, is a species of plant in the family Oleaceae. It is a domed evergreen shrub, growing to about one foot in height, which bears a muddled bunch of small stems with tiny oval leaves. Teeming clusters of fragrant, tiny 5-lobed, yellow tubular flowers, from the axils of the leaves in early summer. Dwarf jasmine is a container plant or trained around topiary form.

The plant was originally collected from Chamba District of Himachal Pradesh, India by Richard Neville Parker in 1920 as an ornamental plant and was sent to Kew botanical garden. It is highly endemic.

Other Chrysojasminum plants

Mediterranean Yellow Jasmine · Yellow Jasmine · Fragrant Jasmine · Chrysojasminum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Jasminum parkeri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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