night jasmine
Open main menu Search Cestrum nocturnum Language Watch Edit Cestrum nocturnum (common names include night-blooming jessamine , night-blooming jasmine , night-blooming cestrum , and raatrani ), is a species of Cestrum in the plant family Solanaceae (the potato family). It is native to the West Indies , but naturalized in South Asia . [1] Cestrum nocturnum Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade : Tracheophytes Clade : Angiosperms Clade : Eudicots Clade : Asterids Order: Solanales Family: Solanaceae Genus: Cestrum Species: C. nocturnum Binomial name Cestrum nocturnum L. Description Edit Cestrum nocturnum is an evergreen woody shrub growing to 4 m (13 ft) tall. The leaves are simple, narrow lanceolate, 6–20 cm (2.4–7.9 in) long and 2–4.5 cm (0.79–1.77 in) broad, smooth and glossy, with an entire margin. The flowers are greenish-white, with a slender tubular corolla 2–2.5 cm (0.79–0.98 in) long with five acute lobes, 10–13 mm (0.39–0.51 in) diameter when open