Description
Jasminum nudiflorum is a deciduous, spreading shrub with green, square, arched-prostrate branches, which, if they touch the ground rooting. This allows the winter jasmine confused, form dense bushes. The twine reaches height of about 2 meters (with the help climbing up to 5 m). Its glossy green leaves are pinnate and opposite three parts. The entire margin leaflets are ovate to narrow-elliptical, 1-3 cm long.
The flowers appear in the winter months before leaf bud break and are individually and axillary to the bare branches of last year (this property has also the epithet “nudiflorum” = “nacktblütig out”). Unlike almost all other members of the family does not smell the flowers. Main flowering period is from January to April, which is known as a winter bloomer. In very mild temperatures of the winter-flowering jasmine yellow his shows before Christmas. The flower stalk is 2-3 mm long. The hermaphroditic flowers measure in diameter from about 2 to 2.5 cm and are five-or sixfold. Five or six sepals are green. Five or six petals are fused to a yellow corolla, which is stieltellerförmig and corolla tube is about 80-20 mm long. In each flower only two stamens are present. The ovary is upper.
Are formed berries, which are ovate to ellipsoid, 6 mm long and have a diameter of 3-4 mm.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter-Jasmin
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