Mazhar Botanic Garden

Cestrum diurnum L.

Day-blooming cestrum day blooming jessamine

Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Cestrum
Species: diurnum
Sample code: EGY-MBG-000493
English name: Day-blooming cestrum, day blooming jessamine
Arabic name: ملكة الليل
Native: West Indies
Country: India

Evergreen woody shrub up to 2-3 m tall leaves simple, glabrous, ovate-lanceolate, dark green above and pale below flower white fragrant

Ornamental flowers, fragrant day

Cestrum fastigiatum Jacq, Cestrum album Ferrero ex Dun

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Texture: Chalk Loam Sandy
Water Sources: Moderate Water
Lights: Full sun
Propagation: Cuttings
Flowering time: Summer
Zone: 9
pH range: 7.0
Status: Cultivated
Life span: Perennial
Habits: Shrub
Vegetation types: Evergreen

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