| Author : L. |
| Family : Oleaceae |
| Habit: Climbing shrub |
| Sanskrit: Jati, Malati |
| English: Common jasmine, Spanish jasmine, Catalonian jasmine |
A large scrambling or twining shrub, with ribbed branches, opposite, imparipinnately compound leaves, 7-11 elliptic or ovate leaflets, terminal one larger than the laterals and often partly united with the uppermost pair and highly fragrant, white flowers with purple tinge on the outside, borne in lax axillary or terminal cymes.
Root, leaves, flowers
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Benzyl acetate, linalool, linalylacetate, benzyl alcohol, indole, jasmine, methyl anthranilate, p-cresol, geraniol, racemic (5-pent-2-enyl)-5,1-pentanolide, benzyl benzoate, nerol, 1-a-terpineol, d- and dl-linalool, g-jasmolactone, b-g-hexenal, farnesol, nerolidol, eugenol, resin, salicylic acid, jasminine, cis-3-hexenol, 2-vinylpyridine, indole, myrcene, geranyl linalool, a-terpineol, geraniol, linalyl acetate, nerolidol, phytol, isophytol farnesol, eugenol, benzyl alcohol, methyl benzoate, benzyl cyanide, benzyl acetate, methyl dihydrojasmonate, methyl anthranilate, cis-jasmone, methyl N-methylanthranilate, vanillin, cis-3-hexenyl benzoate, benzyl benzoate, methyl palmitate, methyl linoleate