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Cestrum nocturnum

Botanic Family

Solanaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

• Lady of the Night
• Night Jessamine
• Queen of the Night
• Night-scented Jessamine
• Galan de Noche
• Huele de Noche
• Ye xiang shu (Pinyin)
• Dama de Noche
• Jasmin
• Lilac de Nuit (Haiti)
• Jasmin Bâtard
• Le Galand de Nuit
• Jasmin (Haiti)
• Ko-kír (Guatuso)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Chile
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thicket
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Jul (Cuba)

Fruiting Times

• Jul (Cuba)

Erect or sprawling clambering shrub to 3.5m with glabrous stems, corky trunk. Glabrates evergreen leaves to 120mm x 42mm. Axillary corymbs or terminal panicles to 100mm long with bracts to 5mm long of about 30 flowers, of night-fragrant 25mm pale green to cream flowers, puberulent calyx 3.5mm long with teeth 1.2mm long, corolla 26mm long, glabrous outside pilose within, limb 4mm long. Fruit a white berry to 10mm x 10mm.

Can become a weed

Cultivated as an ornamental, environmental uses, food, poison, medicinal

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• Exotica
• SAFIO
• Standley