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Old Jun 18th, 2012, 04:54 AM
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Venetian Fragrant Plant ?
Does anyone know the name of the fragrant shrub that is found in the gardens of Venice?

It has a strong scent like jasmine, but I don't think it is jasmine.

You see many of these shrubs around the walled gardens of Venice and especially the Biennale Gardens.

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Could be an Osmanthus. But without a picture I'm just guessing.
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Rosemary?
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Old Jun 18th, 2012, 05:37 AM
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No, this was a flowering shrub, the flowers were in clusters like grapes and kind of looked like a white forsythia.

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Wisteria?
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Spirea?
http://www.garden.org/plantguide/?q=show&id=2103
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Viburnum?
It is certainly very fragrant. You can smell it a long way off.
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Double bridal wreath spirea?
http://stores.ecolage.com/-strse-17/...aea/Detail.bok
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Old Jun 18th, 2012, 06:26 AM
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No, definitely not wisteria. I know wysteria.

I don't think it was spirea either.

Maybe it was a jasmine plant only indigenous to Venice.

This shrub was very fragrant like jasmine.

If anyone has ever been to the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas they would understand the scent.

I think the scent used to 'perfume' the casino and hotel comes from this flowering plant.

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Trachelospermum jasminoides?

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/...e.aspx?pid=302
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Capers?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35012657@N08/4834302004/
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maybe mock orange? we were in Rome one year around this time up on the Aventine Hill and the fragrance was everywhere! Now whenever I smell it, it takes me back there in my mind.
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Star Jasmine? Hmmm, I think that you nailed it, Patrick.

It certainly does look like the plant I saw all over Venice.

Now if only someone who lives in Venice can confirm.

Thanks for the help,

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Old Jun 18th, 2012, 06:47 AM
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtnwa/507425947/

That's it--Star Jasmine!!!!!!!!!

Patrick gets a gold star.

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Well, I was going to say Gelsemium, otherwise known as false jasmine. It's all over Venice this time of year.
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Definitely star jasmine, just got back from venice and its everywhere!
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