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Wonderful plant whose name I do not know

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Luckygirl3 Thu 11-Dec-25 09:04:00

I have a huge evergreen climber which covers the fence by my French doors. It is wonderful as it is covered with clusters of small white flowers from late August to deep winter - it is still flowering now.
The only thing I can remember about its label is that the second word was jasminoides, although it has no scent.
I have searched the internet to try and identify it, but all the jasmines I can find are scented, and the winter jasmine is yellow, not white.
Does anyone have any idea what it might be? - I would like to get another to cover a wall.
Thank you/

Elless Thu 11-Dec-25 09:30:53

Could it be Chinese Jasmine?

Elegran Thu 11-Dec-25 10:00:46

I thoght it might be trachelospermum jasminoides, the star jasmine, but that is sweetly scented. so is solanum jasminoides, the potato vine, but not so strongly.

When the latin name of a plant ends in "something-oides" I think it means that it is not a variety of the "something", but is similar to it. ( just as an ovoid is almost an oval egg-shape, but not exactly one) I may be wrong.

MiniMoon Thu 11-Dec-25 10:11:14

Try taking a photo of it using Google lens. I find this a good way to identify plants.

Luckygirl3 Thu 11-Dec-25 11:04:02

I have done some more research and I think it is Pandorea jasminoides ‘Lady Di’.

I can thoroughly recommend it - it is truly wonderful.

nanna8 Thu 11-Dec-25 11:12:18

Sounds like jasmine to me, too. I have one like that and another one with larger pink flowers. They grow like Topsy here.

25Avalon Wed 17-Dec-25 21:58:32

Insufficient sunlight can cause the normally highly perfumed trachelospermum jasminoides to have little or no scent so perhaps that is the answer? it certainly sounds like star or confederate jasmine.