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Jasmine/Arabian jasmine flower (Beli ful)

Jasmine/Arabian jasmine flower (Beli ful)


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Jasmine/Arabian jasmine flower's buds (Beli fuler kuri)

Bangladeshi girls with jasmine flowers garlands as part of

their hair decoration (Beli fuler mala)

Bangladeshi girls with jasmine flowers garlands as part of

their hair decoration (Beli fuler mala)


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Garland of jasmine/Arabian jasmine (Beli fuler mala)

A Bangladeshi girl with jasmine flowers garlands as part of

her hair decoration (Beli fuler mala)

A blond woman with jasmine flowers garlands(Beli fuler mala)


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Threading wreath with jasmine flower(Beli fuler mala gatha)

Garlands of jasmine/Arabian jasmine flowers ready to sell in a market

Jasmine flower is commonly known as Beli ful in Bangladesh. In English this flower is

also widely known as ''Arabian jasmine''. Scientific name of jasmine/Arabian jasmine flower

(Beli ful) is Jasminum sambac. It belongs to the family Oleaceae and specis is J.sambac.

Jasmine/Arabian jasmine flower (Beli ful) is the national flower of Philippine and

Indonesia.

Jasmine/Arabian jasmine flower(Beli ful) is native to South and South East Asia, that is

Bangladesh and eastern part of India. This flower is widely grown throughout the tropical

areas from the Arabian peninsula to South East Asia and the Pacific Ocean region.

Jasmine/Arabian jasmine(Beli ful) has been cultivated for thousand of years not only for the

beauty of its small,white, star like flowers, but it has also been prized for its intoxicating

scent.

This flower plant is a small shrub or vine growing upto 0,5 to 3 meter in height. The leaves

of the jasmine/Arabian jasmine flower(Beli ful) plant are ovate, 4 to 12,5 cm long and 2 to

7,5 cm wide. The flowers bloom all through out the year and are produced in clusters of 3

to 12 together at the ends of branches. They are strongly scented, with a white corolla 2

to 3 cm in diameter with 5 to 9 lobes.The flowers open at night, usually around 6 to 8

in the evening and close in the morning. Infact, jasmine/Arabian jasmine flower(Beli ful)

is widely cultivated for their attractive and sweetly fragrant flowers. Tipically, the flowers

are harvested as buds during early morning. The flowers are used for perfumes and


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for making tea. The Hindu and the Buddist offer this flower to their goddes and to the

Buddha.

There are numerous cultivars of Jasminum sambac which differ from each other by the

shape of leaves and the structure of the corolla. There are at least 20 to 30 different

varieties of jasmine plant. Only a few varieties reproduce by seed in the wild. Other

wise, generally cultivated Jasminum sambac do not bear seeds and the plant is

reproduced solely by cuttings, layering, marcotting and other methodsof asexual

propagation.

Jasmine/Arabian jasmine flower(Beli ful) is one of the most important flower in

wedding ceremonies for Indian, Bangladeshi people and also for Indonesians,

especially in the Java island. In Bangladesh and India women use the flowers in their hair

for their beautiful fragrance.

S: en.wikipedia.org; care2.com(jasmine,indian flower);toptropicals.com; floridata.com;

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