12/10/2021
Water jasmine
Botanical name: wrightia religiosa (Syn echites religiosus)
General names
• Lady’s earrings
• Wild water plum
• common wrightia
• Wondrous wrightia
• Sui Mui
• Sacred Buddhist
Uses
• As fragrant house /garden plant
• A bonsai plant
• As medicinal plant
Propagation
• by stem cutting,
• by roots cutting
• by seeds
Description
It is an evergreen tropical plant, suitable for ‘pot plant’ as well as ‘garden plant’. Flowers are fragrant, white S-petaled and star-shaped. it flowers throughout the year in suitable conditions. flowers are in cluster. it produces seeds pods which are long slender and in pairs
Article by Ahmad Masood
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These are hard to find plants found in PAKISTAN, picture credits are mostly from friends around the Pakistan. if you have any plant that’s not commonly known do let us know we will find the available information.