Common name: Confederate jasmine

Family name: Apocynaceae

Description: a climbing vine with dark green, lanceolate leaves with showy, creamy white flowers that have a strong, sweet scent.

Flower: creamy white flowers with a sweet scent; flowers are whorled, or look like they are spinning; flowers for 2-3 months in mid to late summer.

Foliage: dark green slightly glossy foliage; evergreen in mild winters

Growing conditions: full sun or dappled shade; well -drained, fertile soils.

Height and spread: 6-9m

Limitations:  very strong scent-plant away from a window and allow wind to carry scent; tender, so in Vancouver only plant in lower elevations

Landscape uses: climbing vine; dark green foliage contrasts with creamy white flowers. good accent for a wall or a trellis.