In our previous house, we had
couple of Crape Jasmines aka Moonlight or Carnation of India along the side
walk. Native to India, the evergreen shrubs thrive with beautiful pinwheel
shaped flowers has dark green leaves and pointed edge. Also known as Nandiar
Vattai in Tamil, the shrub grows up to 4-6 feet in height with spread of 6 feet,
blooms throughout the year and has flowers in 5 petals clustered to the stem
tips. The roots and stem of the shrub has multiple medical benefits and
interestingly the flowers of the single form are unscented rather than the
double form with pleasant fragrance!
Linking this post with Floral Friday Foto
Very lovely flower.
ReplyDeletethey are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, Jeevan!
ReplyDeleteLovely
ReplyDeleteWow, a cool flower. Great that you capture those beautiful scenes that we generally tend to miss :)
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I love this flower and plant because of the beautiful colour combination! You have captured it well!
ReplyDeletethese are so common here! lovely white flower!
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful and fragrant flower.
ReplyDeleteI had two big plants, here, in the States.
Donated one to the Meditation Center in Georgia and have one for ourselves.
Great capture, Jeevan!
Have a Beautiful Day like your Jasmine!
Peace :)
I wish I could grow one in my pot here.
ReplyDeleteLovely photos of this gorgeous flower, Jeevan!
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining us at the Floral Friday Fotos meme.
We also have this sweet smelling white flowers here. They are very popular with all the Indian community. I am surprised that the name is Carnation too.
ReplyDeleteIt is such a pure white pretty flower.
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