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Cestrum
Night-blooming Jasmine |
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| Cestrum nocturnum -- Night-Blooming Jasmine -- Not a true Jasmine, but a tropical evergreen scrambling shrub of the family Solanaceae (tomato/potato/eggplant family) famous for the delicate perfume emanating from its greenish-yellow flowers from midsummer through autumn. Grows to 8-10' tall and nearly as wide, with long, pendulous branches that become thick and heavy with blossoms. We cut branches from the specimen in the greenhouse and bring them in the house, where they continue to provide evening fragrance for a surprisingly long time. Zone 10 or greenhouse, so we've always believed, although more than one nursery now say it will take 15F as a dieback perennial. A native of the West Indies. |
Cestrum
nocturnum
4" pot $8.00
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Cestrum parqui -- Willow-leaved Jasmine -- Probably the hardiest of the "night-blooming Jasmines", this one should take zone 8 winters, and maybe zone 7 as well, though its size will stay somewhere between herbaceous perrennial and small shrub in the colder parts of its range, not the large one that it becomes in the subtropics. Cestrums tend to produce lots of flowers; this one does that, but it does so over a much longer period than most. In the greenhouse, we have bloom on 4 in. tall plants in mid March, and expect prolific bloom until frost. Flowers are inch-long trumpets produced in large terminal and axillary cymes. They are dark gold in bud, opening to pale gold. Native to Chile. |
Cestrum parqui
4"
pot $8.00 |
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