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Jasminum sambac ‘Little Bo’

I collected this from Vietnam where I saw this form only once in a private garden from where this material came.

Nice tight bushy dwarf habit and round wavy leaves on thin vertical stems and a more even spread plant shape. The flowers seem to come in waves (unusually for sambacs) covering the whole plant in scores of buds and then flowers.

In the few years we have been growing this form back at the nursery in N. Europe it has 2 or 3 successive flowerings every year.
The flowers are small/medium on the scale of Jasmine sambac but punch above their weight with their scent which is superb and all the more powerful as 10-15 flowers maybe out at once on a medium sized plant.

The shape is similar to a lotus flower with a pointed exterior bowl shape made from the overlapped petals and in the centre a curved pointed closed petal rising above the inner surface or ‘floor’ of the flower. Buds are rounded in shape and flowers are produced on new growth opening from June onwards.

The leaves also have a slight wavy corrugation to their surface as opposed to being completely flat.