Jasminum grandiflorum
Spain Jasmine
Oleacee

This species was perhaps brought to Sicily by the Arabs. Other sources maintain that the Phoenicians indroduced it from India to Mesopotamia and Cartage, from where it spread all over the Mediterranean area.
Intensively grown for its strong scent in Grasse, in the South of France, where they extract essences for the perfume industry from its flowers.
A half rustic plant with a rich flowering from June to October it is cultivated outdoors only in temperate areas where the Olive and the Citrus plant grown.

Watercolour on paper , 2003
size to 31x41