Scientific Name: Stephanotis floribunda
Common Name: Madagascar jasmine
Family Name: Apocynaceae
Origin: Africa - tropical
Hardiness Zone: Zone 11: (above 4 °C)
Plant Type: Flowering pot plant, Vine or climber
Mature Size: 2 - 3m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Round
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Cut flower or foliage, Fragrance, Indoor plant
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Humus rich, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Leathery, Lustrous, Elliptic, Obovate, Entire
Flowers: Cyme, White, Can flower any month
Fruit: Capsule, Green, Brown
Key ID Features:
Leaves opposite, broadly elliptic, 5-9cm long x 4-5cm wide, margin entire, apex caudate, leathery, glossy, and dark green; flowers waxy white, highly fragrant, narrow-tubular with 5 flaring petal lobes, 3-4cm long x 2-3cm wide.