5 Schrebera alata Seeds - Wild Jasmine - South African Indigenous Evergreen Flowering Tree

Schrebera alata Seeds

Wing-leafed Wooden Pear, Wild Jasmine; Wildejasmyn, Houtpeer

Wild jasmine anoints your garden with a pleasant, sweet-scented fragrance and glorifies it with white to dark pinkish red flowers during the summer season. The flowers attract a parade of bees, hawkmoths and dusk-flying butterflies. Schrebera alata is a quick-growing evergreen tree or shrub, 415 m high, with a greyish or light brown bark. The leaves are opposite and pinnately compound with few leaflet pairs and a single terminal one. The petiole and rachis are narrowly winged. The leaves are shiny dark green above, paler beneath and smooth or velvety when young. The flowers are trumpet-shaped and white to pink, with reddish brown hairs near the mouth of the corolla tube. They are sweet-scented (the fragrance is stronger in the evening) and arranged in terminal clusters up to 110 mm long. The fruits are pear-shaped and shiny green, turning brown in maturity and becoming woody. They split into two halves when ripe and contain about 8 papery, winged seeds. The seeds are dispersed by wind. Flowering time: Sept.May. Fruiting time: Mar.July.