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Genus: Cestrum

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  Eudicotyledons >  Core Eudicots >  Asterids >  Euasterid I > Order: Solanales >  Family: Solanaceae

About 175 species, native to tropical America. Four species have become naturalised in southern Africa. They can be toxic to livestock and all four are declared Category 1 invasive plant in South Africa. .

Species naturalised in southern Africa

Cestrum aurantiacum

 

Cestrum elegans

 

Cestrum laevigatum

Cestrum ?laevigatum

Cestrum parqui

 

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

From Glen (2002)

Cestrum corymbosum

 

Cestrum diurnum

 

Cestrum fasciculatum

 

Cestrum nocturnum

 

Cestrum x cultum

 
 

Publications

  • Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated Plants of Southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.

 

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