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Cestrum nocturnum

(Night Flowering Jassamine)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Dama-De-Noche, Iki He Po, Lady of the Night, Lady-Of-The-Night, Night Blooming Jasmine, Night Blooming Jessamine, Night Cestrum, Night Flowering Jassamine, Night Jasmine, Night Jessamine, Night Scented Jessamine, Night-Blooming Jasmine, Night-Jessamine, Queen of the Night, Thauthau Ni Mbongi

Common Names in Spanish:

Dama-De-Noche

Description

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Family Solanaceae

Herbs, shrubs , small trees , or climbers . Stems sometimes prickly, rarely thorny; hairs simple , branched, or stellate , sometimes glandular . Leaves alternate, solitary or paired , simple or pinnately compound , without stipules; leaf blade entire, dentate , lobed , or divided . Inflorescences terminal , overtopped by continuing axes, appearing axillary , extra-axillary , or leaf opposed, often apparently umbellate , racemose, paniculate , clustered, or solitary flowers, rarely true cymes, sometimes bracteate . Flowers mostly bisexual , usually regular, 5-merous, rarely 4- or 6-9-merous. Calyx mostly lobed. Petals united . Stamens as many as corolla lobes and alternate with them, inserted within corolla, all alike or 1 or more reduced; anthers dehiscing longitudinally or by apical pores . Ovary 2-5-locular; placentation mostly axile ; ovules usually numerous . Style 1. Fruiting calyx often becoming enlarged, mostly persistent . Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds with copious endosperm; embryo mostly curved .

About 95 genera with 2300 species: best represented in western tropical America, widespread in temperate and tropical regions ; 20 genera (ten introduced ) and 101 species in China.

Some species of Solanaceae are known in China only by plants cultivated in ornamental or specialty gardens: Atropa belladonna Linnaeus, Cyphomandra betacea (Cavanilles) Sendtner, Brugmansia suaveolens (Willdenow) Berchtold & Presl, Nicotiana alata Link & Otto, and Solanum jasminoides Paxton.[1]

Genus Cestrum

Shrubs or trees , glabrous or pubescent with simple or branched hairs . Leaves solitary, simple, petiolate , entire. Inflorescences terminal or axillary , racemose or paniculate , sometimes clustered in leaf axils , often bracteate or bracteolate . Flowers 5-merous. Calyx campanulate or tubular . Corolla long tubular; tube sometimes expanded or contracted around anthers , sometimes pubescent abaxially; limb lobed , usually spreading . Stamens inserted at various levels in corolla tube; filaments sometimes pubescent or appendaged at or below point of insertion ; anthers dehiscing longitudinally; disc mostly evident. Ovary 2-locular; ovules few to several, rarely to 20. Style slender; stigma entire or 2-lobed, rarely exserted. Fruit a berry, mostly white or blackish, globose , ovoid , or oblong , often juicy. Seeds 1 or several, oblong; embryo straight or slightly curved ; cotyledons ovate , oblong and much wider than radicle, or cylindric .

About 175 species: North America, South America; three cultivated for ornament in China.[2]

Physical Description

Species Cestrum nocturnum

Shrubs erect or sprawling , 1-3 m tall; young growth puberulent , glabrescent . Branches slender. Petiole 0.8-2 cm; leaf blade oblong-ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 6-15 × 2-4.5 cm, entire. Inflorescences drooping , many-flowered, axillary or terminal racemose panicles, 7-10 cm. Flowers strongly night scented. Pedicel 1-5 mm. Calyx campanulate , 2-3 × 1-1.5 mm; lobes deltoid, 0.5-0.8 mm. Corolla greenish or whitish yellow, 1.5-2.5 cm, tube slightly contracted at throat , lobes 3-4 mm. Filaments with dentate appendages , usually puberulent at point of insertion . Ovary ca. l mm. Berry white, juicy, oblong or globose , 6-10 × 4-10 mm. Seeds 1-5, ellipsoid , 3.5-4.5 mm. [source]

Habit: Round

Flowers: Bloom Period: June, July, August. • Flower Color: yellow • Flower Conspicuous: Tubular

Foliage: Wavy-margined • Foliage Shape: Lance-shaped • Normal foliage color: Green • Underside foliage: Green • Juvenile foliage: Green • Mature foliage: Green • New foliage: Green • Spring foliage: Green • Summer foliage: Green • Fall foliage: Green • Winter foliage: Green

Size/Age/Growth

Growth Rate: Moderate Growing • Size: 4-6' tall.

Landscaping

Care: Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system . Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring . For a formal appearance , shear annually after flowering.

Habitat

 

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,936 meters (0 to 16,194 feet).[3]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 8-10' apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.6 • Maximum pH: 7.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Moisture: Water Requirements: Water regularly, when top 3 in. of soil is dry.

Temperature: Heat Zones: High: 12 (>210 days) Low:1 (< 1 days) (map) • Cold Hardiness: 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Cestrum parqui L'Hér


Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Place of publication : Sp. pl. 1:191. 1753

Name verified on 16-Apr-1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 16-Apr-1996

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Cestrum

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 562 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

C. abeggii · C. aberrans · C. acuminatissimum · C. acuminatum · C. acutifolium · C. acutifolium var. glabrius · C. adelbertii · C. affine · C. africanum · C. alaternoides · C. alaternoides var. obovato-orbiculare · C. albo-punctatum · C. albopunctatum · C. albotomentosum · C. album · C. alternifolium (Alternateleaf Jessamine) · C. alternifolium var. mitanthum · C. alternifolium var. pendulinum · C. ambatense · C. amelanchier · C. amictum · C. amictum f. paranense · C. amictum var. angustifolium · C. amictum var. latifolium · C. amictum var. longiflorum · C. amictum var. organense · C. amictum var. parviflorum · C. amplum · C. amplum var. grandifolium · C. amygdalifolium · C. anagyridium · C. anagyris · C. anagyris var. tomentosum · C. angulosum · C. angustifolium · C. arborescens · C. aristeguietae · C. aronioideum · C. arvense · C. atrovirens · C. atroxanthum · C. aurantiacum (Yellow Shrub Jessamine) · C. aurantiacum 'Album' · C. aurantiacum f. flavum · C. aurantiacum f. regelii · C. aurantiacum f. warszewiczii · C. aurantiacum var. chaculanum · C. aurantiacum var. macrocalyx · C. aurantiacum var. warszewiczii · C. auriantacum · C. auriculatum · C. axillare · C. azuense · C. baenitzii · C. baenitzii var. exstipulatum · C. bahamense · C. bahamense var. latifolium · C. bella-sombra · C. benthami · C. benthamii · C. bicolor · C. bicolor var. angustifolium · C. bigibbosum · C. billbergianum · C. bogotense · C. bogotense var. latifolium · C. bolivianum · C. bonariense · C. bourgeauianum · C. bracteatum · C. bracteatum var. longiflorum · C. bracteatum var. longifolium · C. bracteatum var. parviflorum · C. brasiliense · C. brevifolium · C. brevifolium var. gracillimum · C. brunneo-purpureum · C. buchtienii · C. bupleurifolium · C. buxifolium · C. buxoides · C. buxoides var. lucens · C. cahosianum · C. caldasii · C. caloneurum · C. calycinum · C. calycinum var. tenuiflorum · C. calycosum · C. campanulatum · C. campestre · C. cancellatum · C. candidum · C. cauliflorum · C. cf · C. chaculanum · C. chiapense · C. chimborazinum · C. chiriquianum · C. chlamidatum · C. chloranthum

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Further Reading

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  • Kuang Ko-zen & Lu An-ming, eds. 1978. Solanaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(1): 1-175.
  • Kuang Ko-zen & Lu An-ming, eds. 1978. Solanaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(1): 1-175.

    • Notes

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    Contributors

    Data Sources

    Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 14, 2007:

    Identifiers

    Footnotes

    1. Zhi-Yun Zhang, Anmin Lu & William G. D'Arcy "Solanaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 300. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
    2. "Cestrum". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 330. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
    3. Mean = 376.670 meters (1,235.794 feet), Standard Deviation = 852.400 based on 507 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
    Last Revised: 2009-08-30