Orange jessamine, Mano kamini or Lakeview jasmine

Kamini flowers have an aromatic orange-like fragrance. Native to India, Kamini is a large, multi-trunked shrub, but can grow to become a small tree. It can be pruned and also grown as garden hedge! The evergreen leaflets are dark green and pinnately compound with three to nine leaflets arranged alternately along the spine. The dark green leaves make a dramatic backdrop for the highly fragrant cream colored flowers. The shrub blooms most of the year. The flowers are followed by small oval red fruits with one or two seeds. The shrub is usually propagated from seed.

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Malti or Chinese honeysuckle or Rangoon creeper

Malti or Chinese honeysuckle or Rangoon creeper plant. This plant is used as an herbal medicine. Decoctions of the root, seed or fruit can be used as anthelmintic to expel parasitic worms or for alleviating diarrhea. Fruit decoction can also be used for gargling. The fruits are also used to combat nephritis.Leaves can be used to relieve pain caused by fever.