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  • COMMON NAME: Indian jasmine
  • ARABIC: الياسمين الهندي
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Jasminum multiflorum (Burm.f.) Andrews
  • SYNONYMS: Jasminum congestum Buch. Ham. ex Wall.
  • FAMILY: OLEACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt) Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000813445#bibliography https://www.floraofqatar.com/jasminum_multiflorum.htm https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/609641-1 V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Cultivated in UAE as ornamental plant. The flowers are beautiful and smell aromatic.

Shrubs, scrambler or weak climbers to 3 m. Branchlets terete, densely pilose. Leaves opposite, simple; petiole 5-10 mm, densely pilose; leaf blade ovate-cordate, often broadly so, 3-8 × 1.5-5 cm, papery, ± scattered pilose on both surfaces, glabrescent, except on midrib and veins, base cordate, apex acute to sometimes slightly acuminate, mucronulate; primary veins 3 or 4 on each side of midrib. Inflorescences terminal on side shoots, many flowered, congested; bracts leafy, basal ovate, 1.5-2 cm, upper linear, 3-5 mm. Pedicel 0-2 mm. Calyx densely pilose; tube ca. 1 mm; lobes 6-9, filiform, (2-)5-7 mm. Corolla white, sweetly scented; tube 1.2-1.5 cm; lobes 7-9, acute, 1-1.5 cm. Fruit not seen. Fl. Oct-Apr.

Cultivated, Grows in gardens, parks, homes, and roadsides.
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