Night jasmine
ಪಾರಿಜಾತपरिजातபவளமல்லிகை
Nyctanthes arbor-tristis L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 4.6 m
- wide
- —
Oleaceae
Also called Coral jasmine, Night-flowering Jasmine
Formerly Bruschia macrocarpa, Nyctanthes dentata, Parilium arbor-tristis, Scabrita scabra, and 1 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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
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
- Himalaya to Indo-China, Sumatera to JawaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Top Tropicals, one source
- Height
- 3.0 m to 6.1 mRead from Top Tropicals, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Top Tropicals, one source
- Flowers
- White, orangeRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Top Tropicals, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Japanese
- インドヤコウボク
- Chinese (China)
- 夜花茉莉
- Sinhala
- සේපාලිකා
- Marathi
- प्राजक्त, पारीजातक, पारिजात
- Chinese
- 夜花茉莉, 香遍樹、波利質多羅, 萍蓬草根
- Russian
- Никтантес печальный
- Indonesian
- Srigading
- root
- हार सिंगार, शैफ़ाली, पारिजात
- Kannada
- ಪಾರಿಜಾತ
- Finnish
- neidonjasmiini
- Thai
- กรรณิการ์
- Slovak
- nocovník obyčajný
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
- Top Tropicals, 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: Nyctanthes arbor-tristis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.