Night-blooming jasmine
ರಾತ್ರಿರಾಣಿरात की रानीசெசுட்ரம் நோக்டர்னம்
Cestrum nocturnum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 3.2 m
- wide
- 2.0 m
Solanaceae
Also called Night jessamine, Queen of the night, Night-blooming cestrum, Lady of the night, Night cestrum
Formerly Cestrum graciliflorum, Cestrum leucocarpum, Cestrum multiflorum, Cestrum propinquum, and 4 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to VenezuelaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- myn
- ak'ab-yom
- Spanish
- dama de noche, Jazmín de Noche, Caballero de la Noche
- root
- ijyocxibitl, ishcauíco
- Chinese
- 夜香樹, 丁香花, 鹿脂
- Hawaiian
- `ala aumoe
- Portuguese
- Jasmim-da-noite
- Japanese
- ヤコウカ, ヤコウボク
- Greek
- Νυχτολούλουδο
- Chinese (China)
- 夜香树, 夜来香
- Arabic
- مسك الليل
- Russian
- Цеструм ночной
- Thai
- ราตรี
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Royal Horticultural Society, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Cestrum nocturnum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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