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Crape Jasmine in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Tabernaemontana divaricata

 

Crape Jasmine

Tabernaemontana is a medium sized to large evergreen tropical shrub or small tree in the Oleander family, and is a native of India and southeast Asian. Flowering can occur throughout the year, but the heaviest blooming is in Spring and Summer. There are semi-double- and double-flowered cultivars. Tabernaemontana divaricata is a medium sized shrub that forms a mound of shiny, dark green, veined, foliage, and bears loose clusters of long-tubed white, night-fragrant, single flowers with flared spiralling lobes.The fruit is long follicle with a recurved beak. Flowering can occur throughout the year, but the heaviest blooming is in Spring and Summer. There are semi-double- and double-flowered cultivars.

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plant Features
  • Crape Jasmine likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Crape Jasmine likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

  • Crape Jasmine is a little frost hardy: 32f (0°c)

    A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)

  • Crape Jasmine likes rich and free draining

    Rich and free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Crape Jasmine

Latin name

Tabernaemontana divaricata

type

Evergreen Shrub

family

Apocynaceae

ph

5.5 - 7.3 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Crape Jasmine likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Frost

    Crape Jasmine is a little frost hardy: 32f (0°c)

    A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)

  • Soil

    Crape Jasmine likes rich and free draining

    Rich and free draining

  • Water

    Crape Jasmine likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

Plant & bloom calendar

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full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Crape Jasmine is 3.00meters x 3.00meters 3.00 M 3.00 M

Tabernaemontana divaricata

Tabernaemontana is a medium sized to large evergreen tropical shrub or small tree in the Oleander family, and is a native of India and southeast Asian. Flowering can occur throughout the year, but the heaviest blooming is in Spring and Summer. There are semi-double- and double-flowered cultivars. Tabernaemontana divaricata is a medium sized shrub that forms a mound of shiny, dark green, veined, foliage, and bears loose clusters of long-tubed white, night-fragrant, single flowers with flared spiralling lobes.The fruit is long follicle with a recurved beak. Flowering can occur throughout the year, but the heaviest blooming is in Spring and Summer. There are semi-double- and double-flowered cultivars.


Planting

From Early Spring TO Late Spring

This tropical, heat-loving plant will take a few degrees of frost but will not survive a hard freeze, so where frost is likely, it is best to grow it in a container, or under glass. Grow in acidic to neutral, humus-rich, free-draining soil or compost. If planting outdoors, water in well, and place a layer of mulch around the stem.

 

Flowering

From Early Spring TO Late Winter

The night-fragrant flowers can appear at any time of the year, but flowering is heaviest in Spring and Summer

 

Propagating by cuttings

From Late Summer TO Early Autumn

Take semi- ripe cuttings from this season's growth in Autumn. Cut neatly, just below a leaf node, a 5" approx. piece of a healthy shoot that has soft growth at the tip. pinch out the growing tip, and cut off the bottom leaves. Dip the bottom of the cutting in hormone rooting powder, and carefully place in a pot of cutting compost with the leaves just above the level of the compost. Water, label, cover with a polythene bag, and place in a warm, bright place, out of direct sunlight. Take the polythene bag off periodically for a while for ventilation (at least twice a week)

 
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