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H.L. Li, The Garden Flowers of China, [8] notes that in the third century CE, jasmines identifiable as J. officinale and J. sambac were recorded among "foreign" plants in Chinese texts, and that in ninth-century Chinese texts J. officinale was said to come from Byzantium. Its Chinese name, Yeh-hsi-ming is a version of the Persian and Arabic ...
Indonesia: Jasminum sambac is the national flower, adopted in 1990. [34] It goes by the name "melati putih" and is used in wedding ceremonies for ethnic Indonesians, especially on the island of Java. Pakistan: Jasminum officinale is known as the "chambeli" or "yasmin", it is the national flower. [35] Philippines: Jasminum sambac is
Tabernaemontana divaricata, commonly called pinwheel flower, [3] crape jasmine, East India rosebay, and Nero's crown, [4] is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to South Asia, Southeast Asia and China. [1] In zones where it is not hardy it is grown as a house/glasshouse plant for its attractive flowers and foliage.
The leaves are opposite, 5–12 cm long, pinnate with 5–11 leaflets. The flowers are produced in open cymes, the individual flowers are white having corolla with a basal tube 13–25 mm long and five lobes 13–22 mm long. [4] [5] In Pakistan, it grows wild in the Salt Range and Rawalpindi District at 500–1500 m altitude. [4]
National flower: Common jasmine [31] [33] In Pakistan, jasmine is a very common plant and one can find it in any garden. Because of its attractive scent, the white jasmine symbolizes attachment and represents amiability and modesty; therefore, jasmine was named the national flower of Pakistan. [34] National tree: Himalayan cedar (Deodar) [31] [33]
National; Ministry of Environment (Pakistan) Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency; ... The Common Jasmine is the Official National flower of Pakistan. Dandelion;
Nymphaea nouchali is the national flower of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The national flower of Sri Lanka is Nil mānel (නිල් මානෙල්), the blue-star water-lily (Nymphaea stellata). [33] [34] Although nil means "blue" in Sinhala, the Sinhalese name of this plant is often rendered as "water-lily" in English.
Chrysojasminum humile (syn. Jasminum humile), the Italian jasmine [1] or yellow jasmine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Oleaceae, native to Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Burma (), the Himalayas and south west China (Gansu, Guizhou, Sichuan, Xizang (), Yunnan).