Jasminum polyanthum, also known as pink jasmine or white jasmine, is an evergreen twining climber native to China and Burma (Myanmar).
The Latin specific epithet polyanthum means “many-flowered”. In China, it is currently known as the species of duohuasuxin多 花 素馨, morphologically 'multiple flowers, white, fragrant' but jasmines, before the precise distinctions made by modern botany, were generally called molihua茉莉花.
It was first described by Adrien René Franchet in Revue Horticole 1891. Franchet ...