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Jasminum parkeri
Species of shrub From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jasminum parkeri, the dwarf jasmine, is a species of plant in the family Oleaceae.[1] 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.
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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.[2] It is highly endemic.
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Etymology
Jasminum is a Latinized form of the Arabic word, 'yasemin' for sweetly scented plants.[3]
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