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The jasmine has wide spectrums in Indonesian traditions; it is the flower of life, beauty and festive wedding, yet it is also often associated with spirit and death. In Indonesian patriotic songs and poems, the fallen melati often hailed as the representation of fallen heroes that sacrificed their life for the country.
The jasmine symbolizes a wide variety of things in Indonesian traditions; it is the flower of life, beauty and festive wedding, yet it is also often associated with spirits and death; the sudden scent of jasmine is often an ominous sign for the superstitious, as it may herald the presence of a ghost or jinn.
Jasminum odoratissimum L. – yellow jasmine [6] Jasminum officinale L. – common jasmine, [6] poet's jasmine, [6] jasmine, [6] jessamine [6] Jasminum parkeri Dunn – dwarf jasmine [10] Jasminum pauciflorum Benth. [5] Jasminum pedunculatum Gagnep. [11] Jasminum pentaneurum Handel-Mazzetti; Jasminum pierreanum Gagnep. Jasminum polyanthum ...
The Philippines adopted the sampaguita (Arabian jasmine, Jasminum sambac) in 1934 as its national flower because it symbolizes purity and cleanliness due to its color and sweet smell. [10] It is popularly strung into garlands presented to visitors and dignitaries and is a common adornment on religious images.
Jasmine (botanical name: Jasminum; / ˈ j æ s m ɪ n əm / YAS-mih-nəm) [5] is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family of Oleaceae. [4] [6] [7]: 193 It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Eurasia, Africa, and Oceania. [7]: 194 Jasmines are widely cultivated for the characteristic fragrance of ...
Jasminum angustifolium, the wild jasmine, [2] is a species of jasmine native to Sri Lanka and India, including the Andaman Islands. [1] It is a climbing shrub with a smooth stem and minutely pubescent branchlets. It grows up to 6 m (20 ft) tall. Leaves are dark green and opposite in arrangement. [3]
Jasminum grandiflorum, also known variously as the Spanish jasmine, Royal jasmine, Catalan jasmine, [2] Sicilian jasmine, [citation needed] is a species of jasmine native to South Asia, the Arabian peninsula, East and Northeast Africa and the Yunnan and Sichuan regions of China.
"Mo Li Hua" (Chinese: 茉莉花; pinyin: Mòlìhuā or Mòlihuā [1]; lit. 'Jasmine Flower' [a], also called Sinfa [8]) is a Chinese folk song of the "xiǎodiào" ("short tune") genre, from the Jiangnan region (south of the lower Yangtze river, around Suzhou, Shanghai and Hangzhou).