Crepe jasmine

Tabernaemontana divaricata is an ornamental plant. It’s a member of the Apocynaceae family. It is typically referred to as crepe jasmine. It is known as Tagar or Kath Mallika in West Bengal. It can be found on lawns, gardens, and areas where people have settled. Due to its creamy latex, glossy, deep green foliage, and white, fragrant blooms, this plant is particularly alluring. This plant has a large number of phytochemical substances, including alkaloids, terpenoids, steroids, flavonoids, phenylpropanoids, phenolic acids, and various plant enzymes, making it particularly popular in traditional medicine. The plant parts are used to treat a variety of human physiological diseases, including leprosy, epilepsy, abdominal tumours, eye infections, fractures, fever, headache, inflammations, edoema etc
The plant typically reaches a height of 5 to 6 feet (1.5–1.8 m). The leaves are roughly 15 cm long and 5.0 cm wide. They are big, lustrous, and deep green. In addition to Vinca and Nerium, other genera in the family Apocynaceae also have flowers that have the distinctive “Pinwheel” shape. It is grown in both single- and double-flowered varieties, and both varieties have white flowers. Although the double-flowered variant has more blossoms, the single-flowered form’s flowers lack perfume. Although blossoms intermittently occur practically all year long, the crape jasmine blooms in the spring. White pinwheels with five petals, the waxy blossoms are borne in tiny clusters at the tips of the stems.