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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
Photographs
Description and Growing Information
Flowering Period
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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