Stephanotis floribunda is the botanical name of the plant that is more commonly known under the names of Madagascar Jasmine, Waxflower, and Hawaiian Wedding Flower. It represents the milkweed family. On tough stems it produces deep green leather-like leaves, growing paired between certain spaces along the vine.
Stephanotis floribunda is capable to attain the height from 2 to 6 m. This climber bears attractive white-colored blooms in the shape of trumpet or star. The waxy blooms are notable by strong fragrance and are nearly 3cm in length. Being borne in clusters they are formed in summer. They turn into yellow after a couple of days.
Madagascar jasmines are loved components of a lot of floral arrangements, corsages and decoration, widely used in the bridal bouquets and planted to serve as the gardening flowering plants.
The genus name Stephanotis is derived from two Greek words that are ‘stephonos’ for ‘crown’ and ‘otos’ for ‘ear’. A 'crown of ears' name refers to the bloom trumpet surrounded by 5"ears."
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