Orange Jessamine

Parker (l.c.) reports that the species is cultivated at Abbottabad.

A straggling shrub up to 180 cm tall. Leaves 5-10 x 4-6 cm, ovate, acute or acuminate, glabrous. Corolla orange-yellow; lobes ovate, obtuse, reflexed.

Shrubs, pubescent on young growth, glabrescent. Petiole 1-1.4 cm; leaf blade ovate or elliptic, 4-7 × 2-4 cm. Inflorescences erect, terminal or axillary racemose panicles; bracts deciduous, leaflike, to 7 mm. Pedicel ca. 1 mm. Calyx campanulate, ca. 6 mm, sometimes with 5 prominent longitudinal ribs; teeth ca. 1 mm, often somewhat unequal. Corolla golden yellow, 1.4-2 cm, gradually expanded upwards, glabrous, lobes 3-4 mm. Filaments denticulate, pubescent at point of insertion. Berry white, ovoid, 7-11 mm; persistent calyx often splitting. Seeds ca. 4.

C. America, cultivated for ornament elsewhere.

Distribution: Native to Guatemela. Cultivated elsewhere.

1500-2300 m

Fl Per.: October.

Guangdong [native to Central America].

aurantiacum: orange-flowered

Evergreen, somewhat scrambling shrub or small tree. The flowers have an overpowering citrus-like smell, particularly at night. Fruits white.

Local

Rhodogastria amasis (Tri-coloured tiger)

Native to Tropical America from Guatemala to Venezuela.

Cestrum aurantiacum (orange cestrum, "orange jessamine", orange-flowering jessamine, and yellow cestrum; syn. Capraria lanceolata L.f.) is native to North and South America. This plant is used as an ornamental plant, and it is a poisonous plant if eaten by animals. It is regarded as medicinal in Peru.