Gelsemium
Gelsemium is an Asian and North American genus of flowering plants belonging to family Gelsemiaceae. The genus contains three species of shrubs to straggling or twining climbers. Two species are native to North America, and one to China and Southeast Asia.
Species
yellow jessamine
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderGentianales
- FamilyGelsemiaceae
Native toAlabama, Arkansas, Assam, Borneo, China South-Central, China Southeast, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Hainan, Honduras, Jawa
Observations18,562
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Research
361 papersArticle
10 sectionsContents
- Properties
- Active components
- Medicinal uses
- Species
- Alleged poisoning victims
- Symptoms of poisoning
- Arthur Conan Doyle's experiment
- A rare case of ''Gelsemium'' addiction
- References
- Further reading
Gelsemium is an Asian and North American genus of flowering plants belonging to family Gelsemiaceae. The genus contains three species of shrubs to straggling or twining climbers. Two species are native to North America, and one to China and Southeast Asia.
Carl Linnaeus first classified G. sempervirens as Bignonia sempervirens in 1753; Antoine Laurent de Jussieu created a new genus for this species in 1789. Gelsemium is a Latinized form of the Italian word for jasmine, gelsomino. G. elegans has the common name "heartbreak grass".