Star Jasmine, anyone have any.

[Bush bunny]

We 'had' a lovely star jasmine growing over the side fence. But when they put up the new colorbond fence, they dug it out. The perfume was great. So I bought a small one in a pot, looks healthy, has anyone bonsai-ed these. Plenty in books. It should be OK for Armidale,

[Bek]

I've got 4 of them in my back garden, but not as bonsai - so not much help to you!

[Inspired]

Hi Bb

Funny that you ask because I have been pacing up and down at my parents place on a Star Jasmine I'm pretty sure. Yes smells wonderful. I think it's about 15 years plus as it was already there initially before we moved in.

Anyhow I will take photo soon as it has a rather impressive trunk but with no taper which could be challenging.

I'd also like to see if anyone else has bonsaid this specie

[Bush bunny]

I have seen pics in bonsai books, this one was $12 from a garden centre, so I can treat it as a bonsai eventually. I intend to re-pot it into a bigger pot first. Rather than put it in the ground. Anyway, pic would be useful to me. I have a common jasmine, with an interesting trunk, but I will leave her in the large pot, she has heaps of flowers and cascades. Anyway thanks for anything you have on this potential bonsai.

[Neli]

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I have few shohin and mame star jasmine or Trachelospermum in development.

[Bush bunny]

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Neli, I love the trees, how old? This one is a baby. I reckon from the leaf shape and texture, to treat them a bit like jasmine, cool roots and hot heads, if you get my gist.

[Neli]

I am not too sure this is start jasmine.

[dan.e]

I went to the Australian bonsai grower last week and he has some as bonsai

[Bush bunny]

Hi Neli, I got it from a garden centre, as a young star jasmine. There were others there that were throwing out tendrils already to climb. I picked this one because it was more compact. They come up from Melbourne area. As I have had one before, I don't doubt its genus, seeing the others there. It's label says it is a climber. This won't be of course. They had about 20 of them for sale, they are popular in our area. Be it temperate cold in winter.

[Inspired]

This is a Jasmin that I will eventually start its training.. not sure if its a Star Jasmine?

[Neli]

It is not start jasmine...
Bush bunny the leaves on star jasmine are long and narrow...like the ones I posted.

[Bush bunny]

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Inspired this is a common white jasmine, I have had in a concrete pot for over 10 years. But it's leaves are lighter in color than a star jasmine, I knew and know. They don't grow as well in Armidale as the star jasmine, You have to place them when young in a sheltered position, but with some sun. Hot heads and cool roots is the rule.When they bloom they have a different flower head to the star jasmine. To me the one you have is a star jasmine, sorry Neli, it has thicker, darker green leaves, and can therefore cope with less direct sun, and is hardy in the ground from - C temps. Anyway yours looks as if you have trained it over a rock, and after it flowers you can trim the branches. Mind you, inspired, there are different types of jasmine, but they all have a lovely perfume that pervades the air, inside the house when cut for flowers, or outside.

My common jasmine is beginning to flower now. Star jasmine flower over the year in Armidale, mainly in mid spring though.

[Bush bunny]

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There is a slight difference in flowers and leaves. It depends where they grow and the names given to them in different countries. Hope this helps inspired.

[Bush bunny]

Neli, there is a variety of jasmine, called an Asian jasmine, looks like yours. The leaves are thinner, It is sometimes also called star jasmine. Hope this helps?

[Neli]

yes mine is trachelospermum asiaticum...andit is called start jasmine also...and this is the most commonly used species for bonsai...got it in Japan