Talk:Trachelospermum jasminoides

Confederate jasmine[edit]

The page stated that the name "Confederate" came from the Federated_Malay_States, renaming it in the process, but offers no valid reason why this should be. The FMS was a federation, as the name implies, so I've changed the article text. If anybody wants to change it back again, some explanation is in order. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Groogle (talk • contribs) 04:40, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the reference to "Gardening for the Million" by A. Pink because it provides no support for the text in which it is cited. Specifically it doesn't say anything about the plant's cultivation in the U.S. or about the origin of the name "Confederate Jasmine."

I have also removed (for now) the assertion that the name "Confederate Jasmine" is derived from "Federated Malay States" (mistakenly referred to here as "the Malay Confederacy") due to lack of support. User 71.203.56.3 cited www.fshs.org but did so in the edit summary, so the link is elided. If anyone can provide a complete citation for that derivation, please do so. Ed Oppty (talk) 21:00, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the earliest references to the Federation of Malay States used the form "Confederation of the Malay States" (e.g. The Times. 12 Dec. 1895). It is unlikely, however that this had any part in the naming of the plant. The earliest use of the name "confederate jasmine" are in American sources from the late 1890s. Oddly, the plant has also been called "Malayan jasmine", beginning about 1907, although the plant was discovered in, and introduced into Western horticulture from, Shanghai. Nomen ambiguum (talk) 17:46, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]