![]() Parts of Royal Jasmine, including their sprouts and flowers (dried), have been used for prescriptions. This flower is also given a variety of names in India as it is used for different remedies. Famous Indian figures who have made significant contributions to medicine, such as Charaka and Sushruta, have used Royal Jasmine for various medicinal purposes. It is popular as an alternative to standard western allopathic medicine for a variety of problems, including cancer (specially of the bone, lymph nodes and breast) stress relief, anxiety as well as depression. Leaf-stalks are 0.5-4 cm, leaflet blade ovate or narrowly so (end one usually narrowly rhomboid), 0.7-3.8 x 0.5-1.5 cm, base cuneate or blunt, apex acute, acuminate, or blunt, sometimes mucronate. Leaves are opposite, pinnately cut or compound with 5-9 leaflets. Branchlets are round in cross-section, angular or grooved. Flower-stalks are 0.5-2.5 cm, middle pedicel of cymes prominently shorter. Flowers are white, opening flat-faced, tube 1.3-2.5 cm, petals often 5, oblong, 1.3-2.2 cm. Highly fragrant flowers are borne in 2-9-flowered cymes, in leaf axils, or at branch-ends. Royal Jasmine is a climbing shrub, 2-4 m long. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plant is known as "saman pichcha" or "pichcha" in Sri Lanka. It is closely related to, and sometimes treated as merely a form of, Jasminum officinale. The species is widely cultivated and is reportedly naturalized in Guinea, the Maldive Islands, Mauritius, Reunion, Java, the Cook Islands, Chiapas, Central America, and the Caribbean. Royal jasmine also known variously as the Spanish jasmine, Catalan jasmine, among others, is a species of jasmine native to South Asia, the Arabian peninsula, East and Northeast Africa and the Yunnan and Sichuan regions of China. ![]()
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