Cestrum
Common Name(s):
- Phonetic Spelling
- SES-trum
- This plant has low severity poison characteristics.
- See below
- Description
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Sprawling evergreen shrubs; leaves alternate, simple, smooth-margined; flowers tubular, greenish-white, greenish yellow, or cream, aromatic during day or night; fruit a small, purple or white berry
Found in: Houseplant or interiorscape; landscape in flower garden cultivated as herbaceous annual or perennial
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Attributes:
- Genus:
- Cestrum
- Family:
- Solanaceae
- Life Cycle:
- Perennial
- Woody
- Country Or Region Of Origin:
- Florida to Tropical America
- Edibility:
- Fruit
- Dimensions:
- Height: 2 ft. 0 in. - 6 ft. 0 in.
- Width: 3 ft. 0 in. - 7 ft. 0 in.
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Whole Plant Traits:
- Plant Type:
- Annual
- Edible
- Perennial
- Poisonous
- Shrub
- Leaf Characteristics:
- Broadleaf Evergreen
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Cultural Conditions:
- Soil Drainage:
- Good Drainage
- Usda Plant Hardiness Zone:
- 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b
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Fruit:
- Fruit Color:
- Purple/Lavender
- Red/Burgundy
- White
- Fruit Value To Gardener:
- Edible
- Display/Harvest Time:
- Fall
- Fruit Type:
- Berry
- Fruit Description:
- fruit a small, purple or white berry in September
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Flowers:
- Flower Color:
- Cream/Tan
- Gold/Yellow
- Green
- Pink
- White
- Flower Value To Gardener:
- Fragrant
- Flower Description:
- flowers tubular, greenish-white, greenish yellow, or cream, aromatic during day or night
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Leaves:
- Leaf Characteristics:
- Broadleaf Evergreen
- Leaf Color:
- Green
- Leaf Type:
- Simple
- Leaf Arrangement:
- Alternate
- Leaf Margin:
- Entire
- Hairs Present:
- No
- Leaf Description:
- leaves alternate, simple, smooth-margined
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Stem:
- Stem Is Aromatic:
- No
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Landscape:
- Landscape Location:
- Houseplants
- Landscape Theme:
- Children's Garden
- Problems:
- Poisonous to Humans
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Poisonous to Humans:
- Poison Severity:
- Low
- Poison Symptoms:
- TOXIC ONLY IF LARGE QUANTITIES EATEN. Headache, dizziness, hallucinations, nausea, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, muscular spasms and nervousness, high temperature, salivation and sweating, paralysis and coma.
- Poison Toxic Principle:
- Solanine-type glyco-alkaloids and atropine-like alkaloids
- Causes Contact Dermatitis:
- No
- Poison Part:
- Fruits
