Herb (0.3-3 m) flowers white, yellowish, fragrant (Indonesia) A shrub, untidy (straggling) climbing or lax when young and rooting at the nodes orascending, up to 3m tall; leaves all 1-foliolate, ovate, 2.5-9cm x 2-6.5cm, thin, basesubcordate to obtuse or cuneate, apex obtuse or acuminate, margins subundulate,glabrous or finely pubescent on the main veins, with several sunken and bearded vein-axils beneath; inflorescence a 3- flowered cyme or a many-flowered compact cluster;flowers single or double (in cultivated varieties), with 7-10 calyx segments, 2.5-7mmlong, finely pubescent, corolla tube 7-15mm long, with 5-many lobes, oval or oblong,8-15mm long, mostly white, heavily fragrant; fruit a black berry, surrounded by thecalyx. Jasminum sambac is widely planted and occurring from sea-level ups to 800maltitude. Several double-flowered varieties are recognized, none of which producefruit. (Malaysia) A shrub climbing or lax when young; leaves all 1-foliate, ovate; inflorescence a 3-flowered cyme or many-flowered compact cluster; flowers single or double, mostlywhite, heavily fragrant; fruit a black berry. (Philippines)