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Cestrum aurantiacum

Botanic Family

Solanaceae

Author

Lindley

Cultivated

C, ornamental with cultivar

Hardiness Zone

Min5C

Offspring

Cestrum aurantiacum 'Album'

Common Names

• Orange Cestrum
• Huang hua ye xiang shu (Pinyin)
• Makahala (Hawaiian)

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• forest
• disturbed areas
• hedges
• thickets
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Jan
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec Spring to early Summer

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Oct

Evergreen sprawling or clambering glabrescent shrub or tree to 12m with glabrate branchlets. Glabrous leaves to 80mm x 35mm. Terminal or axillary 30mm orange flowers in pyramidal clusters, reflexed lobes, calyx to 8mm long, glabrous corolla to 25mm long. Fruit a white berry to 12 mm long.

Naturalised in some areas

Cultivated as an ornamental

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• FOH
• RHS A-Z
• Neotrop
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• Exotica
• Standley