All right, someone explain this one to me. My Carolina Jessamine for years had such beautiful bright yellow flowers every spring. This past winter, however, it suffered some during the winter freezes, and ended up looking a little sparse in the leaves but alive, at least. Some of the leaves became rather spotted, as I recall.
This spring I have this:
It’s a crossvine, though opposite in color pattern to my other crossvines. Totally snuck up on me. Whatever happened to my Carolina Jessamine? I apparently completely missed its demise.
Meredith,
Never seen jasmine do that before. It winters here just fine, no frost down there should have affected it. It if continues you might think about marketing it. Sure would be a good seller I’m sure.
Nature working in its mysterious ways… Maybe I have the only jessamine-gone-rogue on the planet!
Erm…any chance you have a rogue crossvine that’s grown up through your jessamine? Flowers, leaves and stem all look like crossvine from the photos.
I suppose it’s possible — it sure looks exactly like crossvine, doesn’t it? But how odd that it would manage to grow in the exact spot of the jessamine and not anywhere else in my yard or along my fence.
Not so strange if the birds ate seeds from the crossvine and then hung out in the jessamine to talk about how your yard is really shaping up as the best new hang-out in this part of town. Efficient planters, those gossipy birds. The little ones do like to huddle in there and talk, don’t they? 🙂
Yeah, you’re right. It’s got to be a crossvine. I do want to point out that my crossvine in the backyard is an opposite pattern, though — the center is yellow with the petals orange.
My poor jessamine. Lost. Sniff. Oh well, now that I’m reading about how poisonous it is, I guess I’ll get over it and rejoice that I have more crossvine.
This is very interesting–we don’t get crossvines OR carolina jessamine, so I’ll just look interested and sympathetic/encouraging!
Your original crossvine has the reverse coloration? Can I get some seeds? The photos above look just like the blooms on my crossvine and I’d love to have the other variety to put somewhere more visible than my current vine. 🙂
Maybe those chatty birds visited from my house!
Sure, Richard, or cuttings. You can see a pic of my main crossvine on the April 8 post.
That looks like our native crossvine. I grew it in my old garden, and it has that same coloration.