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Solanaceae

Subfamily Browallioideae

Subfamily Nicotianoideae

Subfamily Petunioideae

Subfamily Solanoideae

W/C = Wild Collected
Cestrum nocturnum L.

  • Query IPNI
  • Common Name: Night Jessamine, Lady of the Night
  • Family: Solanaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: West Indies
  • Habitat:

  • 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.
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Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198500487
  • Source: Unknown
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1985
  • Bench: 1301 - NEO:Caribbean A
  • Qty: 1 confirmed on 11-12-2009
Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: euasterid I
  • Order: Solanales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Solanaceae
  • SubFamily: Browallioideae
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:
References:

  1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
  2. 1995 Chiltern Seed Catalog

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