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Wonderful plant whose name I do not know

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Could it be Chinese Jasmine?

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/