2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Heat-loving Jasmine and cold-resistant Chubushnik grow in different climatic zones, and they differ in appearance from each other. However, it happens that people call Chubushnik "Jasmine", adding the epithet "garden". What makes two plants, different by botanical criteria, similar: Jasmine and Chubushnik?
Where do Jasmine and Chubushnik live?
Relatives of Jasmine (Latin Jasminum) in the Olive family can be found all over the world. Such representatives of the family as Ash and Lilac, feel great in areas with cold winters, which is hard to believe that they are relatives of Olives, giving people wonderful olive oil. However, when it comes to evergreen Olive and Jasmine, they choose a place of residence in the warm zone of our planet, including in the subtropics.
Chubushnik (Latin Philadelphus) is ranked by botanists in the Hortensia family. Like plants of the genus Hortensia, Chubushnik can be deciduous or semi-deciduous. Chubushnik's ability to shed leaves in the cold season allows the shrub to grow in the cold zone of the planet, delighting gardeners with its picturesque appearance. For example, here is such a handsome man, who got on the main photo of my article, grows in St. Petersburg, delighting the townspeople with his spectacular flowering in June.
The appearance of Jasmine and Chubushnik
Both plants are shrubs. Leaves of different species differ in a variety of forms of the leaf plate, which does not so much make Jasmine and Chubushnik similar, but rather complicates their identification for people who are far from the wisdom of botanical science. But, there is one dramatic difference for the leaves of these two different plants.
Jasmine's evergreen leaves are generally tough, leathery, or glossy. These traits were bestowed upon them by nature when it created tropical plants. This helps the leaves to survive under the hot rays of the sun, and also to endure tropical showers almost without loss:
Chubushnik leaves have a "character" not so steep. They are soft, with a light fluff on the underside of the leaf and a "wrinkled" upper surface created by numerous veins running in different directions. They do not resist the whims of nature, but resignedly fall from sharp gusts of wind or on the eve of winter cold:
Blooming Jasmine and Chubushnik
The flowers of these two unrelated representatives of the flora of our planet are not at all similar to each other. Sometimes, however, they are related by the white color of the flower petals, although the petals of Jasmine can still be yellow or reddish.
In Jasmine, the corolla of the flower most often has a long, narrow tube ending in separate petals, as seen in the photograph. A sort of family-flower (with seven petals) of the correct shape. Only two stamens and a pistil with an upper ovary are hidden inside the narrow tube:
True, as often happens in nature, there are flowers of a completely atypical form for Jasmine, more like roses, but again, different from the flowers of Chubushnik. Such a sweet fragrant creation of nature, called "Jasmine", I met on the Thai island of Phangan:
The large flowers of the Chubushnik are not at all the same as you and I have just seen at Jasmine. In a goblet cup of four or five concave sepals, a floral corolla of large petals is comfortably located. The number of petals ranges from four to six. The shape and size of the petals may vary. In the center of the flower, there is a round dance of stamens surrounding the pistil. Such is the magnificent and picturesque community:
Pleasant bloom scent
From the description of the two plants given above, the conclusion suggests itself that Jasmine and Chubushnik are completely different plants, which botanists have known about for a long time. What is the reason for people to call some types of Chubushnik "Garden Jasmine"?
This "reason" is the delicate aroma exuded by Jasmine closer to the evening. Flowers of some species of Chubushnik have a similar aroma. It is the scent of flowers that is the only thing that makes the heat-loving Jasmine in common with the cold-resistant Chubushnik. Delightful unity, isn't it?
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For those who love the aroma of jasmine, but by the will of fate do not live in warm regions where evergreen shrubs grow, nature has created another shrub with a similar aroma. It is much more hardy than jasmine, and therefore pleases fans living in central Russia. The deciduous shrub is called Chubushnik
