Poets Jasmine-Jasminum Grandiflorum

Jasminum grandiflorum, also known variously as the Spanish jasmine, Royal jasmine, Catalan jasmine, among others,^[2] is a species of jasmine native to South Asia, the Arabian peninsula, East and Northeast Africa and the Yunnan and Sichuanregions of China. The species is widely cultivated and is reportedly naturalized in Guinea, the Maldive Islands, Mauritius, Réunion, Java, the Cook Islands, Chiapas, Central America, and the Caribbean.^[1]It is closely related to, and sometimes treated as merely a form of, Jasminum officinale.^[3] The plant is known as “saman pichcha” or “pichcha” in Sri Lanka.