Crape jasmine
ನಂದಿಬಟ್ಟಲುचांदनीநந்தியாவட்டை
Tabernaemontana divaricata (L.) R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.7 m
- wide
- 1.4 m
Apocynaceae
Also called Crepe Jasmine, Common Tabernaemontana, Pinwheel Jasmine, Indian carnation, Pinwheelflower
Formerly Ervatamia coronaria, Ervatamia divaricata, Ervatamia flabelliformis, Ervatamia recurva, and 18 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
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 China (S. Yunnan) and Indo-ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: UF/IFAS full, part; UF/IFAS full, part, shade
- Height
- 1.5 m to 1.8 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.8 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 狗牙花, 山馬茶, 芝麻菜
- Spanish
- Jazmín crepé
- Indonesian
- Mondokaki
- Japanese
- サンユウカ
- Sinhala
- වතු සුද්ද
- Thai
- พุดจีบ
- Russian
- Табернемонтана растопыренная
- Danish
- rosentrompetranke
- Hebrew
- בירנית מפושקת, טברנמונטנה
- Chinese (China)
- 狗牙花
- German
- Schmetterlingsgardenie
- Slovak
- guľovník vencový
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
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, 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-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Tabernaemontana divaricata (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.