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Jasminum sambac (L.) Ait.
Synonym
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Jasminum sambac var. duplex
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Family
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Oleaceae
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Local name
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English-Arabian jasmine
Malayalam-Kudamulla
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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Throughout the year
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Distribution
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Sri Lanka through India to Myanmar
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Distribution
in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Grown as garden plant
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Uses
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Grown as garden plant. it is having properties like
anti-depressant, antiseptic, cicatrisant, aphrodisiac, expectorant,
anti-spasmodic, galactogogue, sedative, parturient, uterine etc.
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Key botanical characters:
Scandent or suberect shrub; branchlets pubescent.
Leaves opposite or in whorls of three,. Flowers fragrant, in few-flowered
terminal cymes, pedicels up to 6 mm; bracts linear, up to 6 mm long. Calyx
teeth 5-9, c. 1 cm long, V-shaped, pubescent. Corolla white, simple or
double, tube 1 cm long, lobes 5-9, oblong, acute or obtuse, or orbicular
under cultivation, 1.5 cm long. Berry simple or didymous, globose, balck when
ripe,surrounded by suberect, subulate calyx teeth.
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