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Tabernaemontana divaricata
Butterfly Gardenia, Crape Gardenia, Crape Jasmine, Crepe Jasmine, East Indian Rose-Bay, Paper Gardenia, Pinwheel Flower
Origin: Southern China, India, Myanmar, and Thailand.
| Family |
| Apocynaceae |
| Genus |
| Tabernaemontana |
| Species |
| divaricata |
| Category |
| Tropicals, Woody |
| Type |
| Tree (evergreen), Shrub (evergreen) |
| Synonyms |
| Nerium divaricatum, Jasminum zeylanicum, Nyctanthes acuminata, Nerium coronarium, Tabernaemontana discolor, Vinca alba, Tabernaemontana coronaria |
| Canadian Hardiness Zone |
| Requires cold season protection under glass. |
| Height |
| 0.5 - 5 m |
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Description and Growing Information
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| General Description |
| An evergreen shrub or small tree growing from 0.5 - 5 metres tall. |
| Landscape |
| The plant responds well to trimming and makes an attractive flowering hedge. |
| Cultivation |
| Grow in full sun or slight shade. It is not particularly demanding about the soil, but prefers rich, free draining, acidic or neutral, that are almost constantly moist.. |
| Habitat |
| Montane brushwoods, sparse forests; at elevations of 100 - 1,600 metres in southern China. Light forests, usually in the hills, from sea-level to 1,400 metres in other regions. |
| Leaf Description |
| On a 0,4-1 cm long petiole, are opposite, simple, oblong-lanceolate with long pointed apex and entire margin slightly waved, 7-15 cm long and 2-4 cm broad, of intense green colour and glossy above, opaque below and prominent veins. |
| Flower Description |
| The inflorescences, at the axil of the upper bifurcations of the branches, are cymes carrying 2-10 flowers of 3-5 cm of diameter that smell at night. Calyx with ovate sepals, hypocraterimorphous corolla with greenish tube 1,5-2,5 cm long, oblong-ovate lobes, 1,5-2,5 cm long and about 1 cm broad, of white colour with yellow centre, waxy. |
| Fruit Description |
| Oblong follicles in pairs with a pointed curved extension, of 4-7 cm long and of 0.8-1.5 cm in diameter, containing several seeds covered by red aril. |
| Notable Specimens |
| Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden, Mae Rim District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. |
| Propagation |
| By seed or stem cuttings. |
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