Common name: River Jasmine, Brazilian Jasmine • Tamil: பெருமல்லி Perumalli
Botanical name: Jasminum fluminense Family: Oleaceae (Jasmine family)
River Jasmine is a species of Jasmine to which the name Jasminum azoricum was erroneously applied. River Jasmine is an evergreen, climbing, woody vine, with young stems densely hairy and mature stems glabrous. Leaves opposite, trifoliolate, leaf and leaflets stalked; terminal leaflet larger, to 7 cm (4 in) long, with a stalk to 5 cm (2 in) long; leaflets broadly ovate, pubescent above and below, with pointed tips. Flowers white, quite fragrant, opening at night, in broad, branched clusters at leaf axils; petals fused into a narrow, slightly curved tube to 2.5 cm (1 in) long, with 5-7 terminal lobes shorter than the tube, spreading in star-shaped fashion. Fruit a small, fleshy, roundish, black, 2-lobed berry.
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