Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cestrum parqui
Common name
Green Cestrum, Green Poisonberry, Willow Leaved Jessamine
Family
Solanaceae
Where found
Forest margins, open woodland, pastures, roadsides, parks, old gardens, disturbed sites, and near streams. Coast and ranges north from Kiama. Occasionally farther south.
Notes
Introduced shrub to 4 m high. Fruit fleshy. Bark smooth, mottled grey, sometimes the bark at the base of mature plants grooved. Stems and leaves have an unpleasant odour when rubbed. Young stems with prominent lenticels, hairy with minute simple hairs, soon becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–12 cm long, 5-40 mm wide, hairy with fine hairs when young, but become hairless as they mature, margins often wavy. Flowers yellow or greenish yellow, tubular, the tube narrow, 12-25 mm long, with 5-7 lobes each 2.5-6 mm long. Flowers in large dense clusters. Flowering: throughout the year. Fruit black or purplish-black, glossy, oval to oval, 8–15 mm long.
General Biosecurity Duty all NSW. General Biosecurity Duty with additional restrictions in the Central Tablelands, Greater Sydney, and Murray areas, NSW. Noxious weed Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cestrum~parqui
(accessed 7 January, 2021)
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