In a message dated 3/19/99 10:53:15 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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>  Here is South Carolina  we have both Forsythia and Jasmine.
>  They are two different plants.
>
>  The forsythia is a decidious shrub, with the blooms appearing
>  before
>  the leaves pop out in the spring.
 
    Forsythia is a yard shrub, probably not native, and along the coast, will
often bloom all winter.
 
>  Jasmine on the other hand is more of a fast growing evergreen
>  vine
>  (there may be a variety that is more shrublike, but i believe it
>  is evergreen as well).
>
>  Before everyone crushes me, I do not know the scientific name of
>  either.
 
   Yellow jasamine is Gelsemium sempervirens. It blooms in early spring. I
believe it is native, at least it grows freely in the wild and is very common.
It is a vine, often growing on fences, or up small trees at the edge of a
forest. In checking a guidebook, it mentions that all parts of the plant are
poisonous. It says children have been poisoned by sucking nectar from the
flowers, apparently thinking it was honeysuckle.
 
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