Jasminum sambac is a species of jasmine native to a small region in the
eastern Himalayas in Bhutan,Pakistan,Karachi and neighboring India. It is cultivated in many
places, especially across much of South and Southeast Asia. It is naturalized in many scattered
locales: Mauritius, Madagascar, the Maldives, Cambodia, Java, Christmas Island, Chiapas, Central
America, southern Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the Lesser
Antilles.