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Cestrum

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Solanales Family: Solanaceae Genus: Cestrum

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Woody shrubs or small trees, glabrous or pubescent with simple or dendritic hairs.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, sometimes geminate. Margins entire. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in axillary or terminal inflorescences, often congested racemes or panicles. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx tubular, 5-lobed. Corolla sometimes slightly zygomorphic, tubular, 5-lobed, the tube obconical or slightly inflated, the lobes short. Stamens 5, usually subequal filaments inserted on corolla tube, variously pubescent; anthers included. Ovary superior, 2-celled, on a small disk, glabrous; style 1, erect; stigma capitate, at about the same level as anthers.

Fruit: Fruit a hard or succulent berry. Seeds prismatic; embryo straight in endosperm.

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

  • Cestrum flowers are sometimes used in lei because of their sweet-smelling nature

Natural History

Island Status

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Specimens

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Notes

  • Depending on ripeness, the berries of this plant produce two different kinds of toxins (solanine/atropine) that can cause extreme symptoms following consumption

Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 191 (1753)

Other References

Poisonous Plants of Paradise (Scott and Thomas) p.41-43

Occurrences

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