The flower is a small climbing shrub, up to 6 meters. The twigs are cylindrical, with small prickles. The prickles on the old branches are very big and hard.
Jasmine also climbs shrubs, but compared with the former, it is much smaller, about 3 meters high, and its twigs are cylindrical or slightly flat, with pilose hairs on them.
The leaves are oblong lanceolate or oval ovate, the apex is sharp or slightly blunt, the base is nearly round, and the edge is serrated.
The leaves of jasmine flowers are round, oval, oval or obovate, wider than the former, round or blunt at both ends, with a microcardioid at the base and no serrations at the whole edge.
The flowers are umbels, small, single, double yellow.
Jasmine flower is cyme, the flower is much bigger than the former, the flower color is various, the more common is white.