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Cestrum alternifolium

Botanic Family

Solanaceae

Author

(Jacquin) O.E. Schulz

Common Names

• Jasmin Bâtard
• Sureau Bâtard
• Jumbey Pepper

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Leeward islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Virgin islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Cloud forest
• forest margins
• riverside
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Feb (Tobago)

Fruiting Times

• Feb (Tobago)

Sometimes scandent shrub with pilose young stems. Glabrous leaves to 114mm x 53mm, pilose beneath. Axillary& terminal umbels of about 10 flowers, calyx 3mm long with teeth to 1mm, greenish-white aging purple corolla to 25mm long, glabrous outside & puberulent within with limb 5mm long. Black-violet berry to 15mm x 7mm.

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• JAA
• SAFIO
• Standley