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Accession Data

Cestrum nocturnum

Common Name: Night Jessamine, Lady of the Night

Family: Solanaceae

Country of Origin: West Indies

Description: This tropical evergreen shrub produces tubular, greenish-yellow flowers, that are delicately perfumed at night, in a succession from July to October. It does best with its slender shoots trained up a suitable pillar or rafter.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 8-11

Accession #: 198500487

Accession Date: 1985-12-31

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1302

Quantity: 1

Source: Unknown

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: euasterid I

Order: Solanales

Family: Solanaceae

SubFamily: Browallioideae

Tribe: Cestreae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References

  1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
  2. 1995 Chiltern Seed Catalog
  3. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, September 06, 2016.
  4. Cestrum nocturnum at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Tuesday, September 06, 2016.
  5. Poisonous Plants at University of California. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 05, 2017.

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Cestrum nocturnum