What is the difference between a mock orange, and a jasmine bush?

I thought years ago that I had gotten a a few starts off of a mock orange bush, but someone told me they thought what I had is a Jasmine bush. Now, I'm not sure. I looked up a picture of the blossoms and they looked similiar. White delicate flowers. I live in the midwest U.S. and the bushes after all these years are doing fabulous.

What is the difference between a mock orange, and a jasmine bush?
Mock orange is a shrub with thin, flakey to shreddy bark.





Jasmines are generally vines....tho winter jasmine is a wild shrub, LOL. They can be either deciduous or evergreen or evergreen stemmed thru the winter.





Mock orange leaves are simple, that is at the stem where the bud is, there is just one leaf.





Jasmine can be simple but more often are trifoliate, that is 3 little leaflets......or may even be pinnate (like a honey locust) with multiple leaflets...up to 9.





Mock orange flowers have 4 petals and 4 sepals (hmm, how to describe a sepal....??...when a rose is still in bud, the green part that breaks open are the sepals. In some flowers the sepals aren't green, but the same color as the petals)





In jasmine the corolla (all the petals together) are 5 or 6 lobed.
Reply:Jasmine is a vine, so theres one difference. Mock Orange has glossy green leaves %26amp; a larger flower than the jasmine. It smells like an orange blossom, %26amp; the jasmine, which also has a pinkish tinge to the flower, is a highly fragrant plant
Reply:Mock Orange blossoms smell like a orange blossom


Jasmine bush smells like Jasmine flowers


they look similar but yet smell very different





Whatever it is,


enjoy its beauty and fragrance
Reply:The mock orange ( a true one) will be very fragrant with the smell of orange blossoms.