Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cestrum nocturnum
Common name
Lady-of-the-Night
Family
Solanaceae
Where found
Forest, shrubland, and stream banks. North from the Sydney area.
Notes
Introduced shrub or tree to 4 m high. Fruit fleshy. Young stems sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 10–15 cm long, 40–70 mm wide, glossy, midrib on the undersurface hairy with fine hairs, margins entire. Flowers greenish yellow or greenish white to cream, about 10-13 mm in diameter, tubular, the tube 20-25 mm long, with 5 lobes. Flowers in large dense leafy clusters. Fruit white when ripe, round to oval, 8–12 mm in diameter. All parts of the plant are highly toxic.
General Biosecurity Duty all NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cestrum~nocturnum
(accessed 7 January, 2021)
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