Some " Cestrum " species contain chlorogenic acid, and the presence of this potent sensitizer may be responsible for this effect in " C . nocturnum ".
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A : I assume you have the night-blooming jessamine, Cestrum nocturnum, which produces small greenish to off-white ( some say creamy ) tubular flowers and white berries.
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Other familiar ornamentals included in Solanaceae are Cestrum species such as the badly named night-blooming jasmine ( C . nocturnum ), which features perfumed blossoms and white, toxic berries.
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Each turn presents a surprise : a giant staghorn fern or Spanish moss hanging from a tree; masses of orange red blooms of the Bermuda firecracker cascading down the stratified moat walls; the fragrance of night-flowering cestrum.
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In some cultures, it has been compared to a picturesque lady of the night, because Cestrum is unnoticed by day ( its small greenish-white, narrow tubular flowers are closed ), heavenly by night and just a pleasant memory by morning.
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It is a 12-foot-tall rangy evergreen shrub in its native West Indies, but Cestrum nocturnum is grown in most parts of the United States as a houseplant, blooming in the summer and occasionally on and off later in the year.
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With the understanding that one has to smell them for oneself, I can suggest four to sit on a sunny window sill : Murraya paniculata ( orange jasmine ), Osmanthus fragrans ( fragrant olive ), Mitriostigma axillare ( wild coffee ) and Cestrum nocturnum ( night-blooming jessamine ).
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Detailed anatomical and developmental studies have shown that the berries of " Cestrum " and those of the Solanoideae are significantly different; for example, expansion of the fruit during development involves cell divisions in the mesocarp in Solanoideae berries, but not in " Cestrum " berries.
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Detailed anatomical and developmental studies have shown that the berries of " Cestrum " and those of the Solanoideae are significantly different; for example, expansion of the fruit during development involves cell divisions in the mesocarp in Solanoideae berries, but not in " Cestrum " berries.
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Cestrum nocturnum is available from Glasshouse Works, P . O . Box 97, Church Street, Stewart, Ohio 45778, ( 800 ) 837-2142; and Kartuz Greenhouses, 1408 Sunset Drive, P . O . Box 790, Vista, Calif . 92085, ( 760 ) 941-3613.
