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Cestrum Nocturnum

Plants Cestrum ElegansCestrum Parqui

Cestrum nocturnum L.
Common Names
evening scented jessamine, jessamine, lady of the night, lady-of-the-night, night blooming jasmine, night cestrum, night jessamine, night queen, night-blooming jasmine, night-flowering cestrum, ...

 


#28 Cestrum nocturnum
Common Names: night blooming jasmine, night jessamine, night-blooming cestrum
Family: Solanaceae (nightshade Family)
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Cestrum nocturnum
The fragrance of this vigorous shrubby perennial is infamous for it's intensity after dusk. A tender perennial in Zone 8b normally returning from the roots. Enjoy.
Light: Full to Partial Sun ...

Cestrum nocturnum
Family: Solanaceae
Night Blooming Jasmine, Queen of the Night, Night Jessamine, Lady of the Night
Origin: Tropical America and the West Indies ...

Night Blooming Jasmine [English]: Cestrum nocturnum
Night Blooming Jasmine [English]: Cestrum 'Orange Peel'
Night Blooming Jessamine [English]: Cestrum nocturnum
Night Bromeliad [English]: Streptocalyx floribundus ...

Cestrum nocturnum (Night Jessamine)
Cestrum parqui (Willow-Leafed Jessamine)
Cyphomandra betacea (Tree Tomato, Tamarillo)
Datura metel (Downy Thorn Apple)
Datura wrightii (Sacred Datura, Wright's Jimson Weed)
Iochroma cyaneum (Violet Churur) ...

Its East Indian name is "Rajnigandha", though it is sometimes mistakenly referred to as "Raat ki Rani" ("Queen of the Night"), which is really Cestrum nocturnum. The Hindi name Rajnigandha means "night-fragrant" (rajni=night; gandha=fragrance).

night-flowering jassamine Cestrum nocturnum
Nile cabbage; water lettuce Pistia stratiotes
nit grass Gastridium phleoides
nodding plumeless thistle Carduus nutans
nodding star-of-Bethlehem Ornithogalum nutans
none found Epidendrum x obrienianum ...

See also: Green, Jasmine, Jessamine, India, Evergreen

Plants Cestrum ElegansCestrum Parqui

 
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