Cestrum parqui

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

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

Habitat

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

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 8-10' apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Cestrum

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 20 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. alternifolium (Alternateleaf Jessamine) · C. aurantiacum (Hediondillo) · C. diurnum (China Berry) · C. diurnum var. diurnum (Day Flowering Jassamine) · C. diurnum var. portoricense (Puerto Rico Jessamine) · C. elegans (Butterfly Flower) · C. elegans var. smithii (Pink Cestrum) · C. elegans 'Smithii' (Pink Cestrum) · C. elegans 'Variegata' (Variegated Cestrum) · C. fasciculatum (Early Flowering Jessamine) · C. fasciculatum 'Newellii' (Early Flowering Jessamine) · C. laurifolium (Galen Del Monte) · C. nocturnum (Lady of the Night) · C. parqui (Chilean Flowering Jassamine) · C. psittacinum (Cestrum) · C. salicifolium (Pussywillow Jessamine) · C. x cultum (Purple Cestrum) · C. x cultum 'Cretan Purple' (Purple Cestrum) · C. 'Compact Purple' (Cestrum) · C. 'Orange Peel' (Night Blooming Jasmine)

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Further Reading

• An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants, Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1922-26. url p. 430.
• Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University. 28 1980-1982 Cambridge, Mass.: Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 1932- url p. 210.
• Botanical publications of E.D. Merrill. [New York, etc., 1899- url .
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 134.
• Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. 4 1905-1907 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., url p. 317.
• Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 24 1897 New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1870-1996 url p. 333.
• Entomological news. [Philadelphia]American Entomological Society, 1925- url p. 36.
• Fifty years of botany; golden jubilee volume of the Botanical Society of America, edited by William Campbell Steere. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1958. url p. 320.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 369.
• Ornamental gardening in Florida, by Charles Torrey Simpson; a treatise on the decorative plants adapted to Florida and their cultivation, with suggestions for the ornamentation of Florida homes and grounds. Little River, Fla., The author, 1916. url p. 144, p. 144.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1979- url p. 49.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 6 1883 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 449, p. 604, p. 655.
• Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899. J. B. Hatcher in charge. Edited by William B. Scott. Princeton, The University, 1901-32 [v. 1, 1903] url p. 709, p. 709.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 133 1957 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 399.
• Technical series. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1895-1915. url p. 113, p. 81.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 770.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 27.
• The Natural history of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island / edited by Carl Skottsberg. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1920-1956. url , .
• The Philippine journal of science. 3 1908 Manila. url p. 434.
• The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the southern hemisphere, during the years 1849-'50-'51-'52. Lieut. J. M. Gilliss, superintendent. .. Vol. I, II, III, VI. .. Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, printer, 1855-56. url p. 267, p. 270.
• The natural history of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island / edited by Carl Skottsberg. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1920- url p. 36.
• The phanerogams of the Juan Fernandez Islands. url , .
• Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. Wellington: New Zealand Institute. url p. 172.
• 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

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 19, 2007:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium
• GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
• , Vascular Plant Herbarium
• GBIF-Spain, Universidad de Almería, HUAL
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Herbarium of New South Wales, NSW herbarium collection
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2653585
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-30499
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13809910
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:815210-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 815209-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 726034

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 = 1,382.180 meters (4,534.711 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,304.860 based on 377 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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