Jasminum humile
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Jasminum humile' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
This variable species, native to the Sino-Himalayan region, is represented in gardens from several introductions. The earliest type to reach Europe f. humile, came in the 17th century and was known in British gardens as the ‘Italian Yellow Jasmine’, the plants, according to Philip Miller, ‘being commonly brought from thence by those who come over with the Orange-trees’. This name served to distinguish it from the common yellow jasmine (J. fruticans), on which it was often grafted. It is inferior to the cv. ‘Revolutum’ as a garden plant, having smaller, less fragrant flowers, but is often hardier.
From the Supplement (Vol. V)
f. wallichianum – This is in cultivation from seeds collected during the University of North Wales Expedition to Nepal in 1971 (B.L. & M. 241) and received an Award of Merit when shown from the Hillier Arboretum.
f. farreri (Gilmour) P. S. Green,
Synonyms
comb. & stat. nov. J. farreri Gilmour in Bot. Mag., 47 (1934), t. 9351
A wide-spreading shrub, 6 to 8 ft high. Young stems angled; stems, leaves, and inflorescences lightly pubescent. Leaflets three to five, the terminal 1{1/3} to 3{1/2} in. long, the lateral 1 to 2 in. long. Flowers bright yellow, not fragrant, seven to twelve per inflorescence, borne in June.Introduced by Farrer from Upper Burma in 1919, under his No. 867, and at first cultivated under the incorrect name of J. giraldii (a synonym of and the pubescent expression of J. floridum).
f. humile
A nearly evergreen, glabrous shrub. Leaves alternate with three to seven, sometimes nine leaflets, the terminal {3/4} to 2 in. long, the lateral {1/2} to 1{1/2} in. long. Flowers yellow, often not fragrant, 5 to 10 borne together. Bot. Reg., t. 350. This is the typical form of the species.This, the ‘Italian Yellow Jasmine’, is native from Afghanistan and W. Pakistan to Burma and China (Yunnan and Szechwan). It has been reintroduced in more recent times both from the Himalayas and, as Forrest 18927, from S.E. Tibet.f. wallichianum (Lindl.) P. S. Green
Synonyms
J. wallichianum Lindl.
J. pubigerum D. Don var .glabrum DC.
J. humile var. glabrum (DC.) Kobuski
'Revolutum' J revolutum Sims;
Synonyms / alternative names
J. humile var. revolutum (Sims) Stokes