One of the South's most fragrant plants. Beautiful and easy to grow, yellow jasmine is a semi-evergreen climbing vine which blooms in early spring and again in the fall. The plant is known by several names, including Carolina jasmine, evening trumpetflower, yellow jessamine and its formal botanical name, Gelsemium sempervirens. Though it is lovely, all parts of the yellow jasmine plant are highly poisonous. The notion that the nectar from this plant poisons bees or contaminates honey is false. Bees are able to metabolize naturally occurring toxic nectars, into a safe food source for themselves and their brood. Read more about Green Chapels Bee Research here.
Beautiful plant, @ctrl-alt-nwo! The name ‘jasmine’ comes from the Italian word, gelsomino, which together with the southern French word jensemie and Catalan word gessami are derived from the Persian/Arabic yasamin or yasemin. In ancient Greece, iásminon was described as ‘a fragrant oil from Persia’. The species name sempervirens derives from the Latin semper meaning ’always‘ and virens meaning ‘green’.
Interesting, beautiful and very useful for human plants. Gelsemium SEMPERVIRENS - Evergreen Gelsemia.
Virginia or yellow jasmine, Jasmine Carolina.
Very popular in landscaping liana. Blooms profusely in early spring, the flowers are bright, fragrant. Helzemia is recognized as the state flower of South Carolina. Widely used in medicine.
A fast-growing evergreen woody vine, with thin twisting branches.
Leaves are supremely full lanceolate leathery, dark green shiny, up to 10 cm long.
The flowers are bright yellow, very fragrant, up to 5 cm long, collected in dense inflorescences. Corolla right bell-shaped five-bladed. Its fragrant flowers are among the earliest in spring.
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Medical use
Historically Gelsemium sempervirens was used as a topical to treat papulous eruptions. It was also used to treat measles, neuralgic otalgia, tonsillitis, esophagitis, dysmenorrhea, muscular rheumatism, headaches
