Common Jasmine

Also known as Poet's Jasmine, White Jasmine, True Jasmine, Jessamine

Common jasmine is a vigorous deciduous climbing vine renowned for clusters of starry white flowers that release an intense, sweet fragrance most powerfully at dusk. Native to mountainous valleys and woodlands of Central Asia and the Caucasus, it scrambles upward by twining slender green stems through neighboring canopy vegetation. Long cultivated across the Mediterranean and beyond, its blossoms remain a cornerstone of commercial perfumery and attract a wide array of night-flying sphinx moths.