Cestrum
Sign in to saveCestrum is a genus of — depending on authority — 150-250 species of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae. They are native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas, from the southernmost United States (Florida, Texas: day-blooming cestrum, C. diurnum) south to the Bío-Bío Region in central Chile (green cestrum, C. parqui). They are colloquially known as cestrums or jessamines (probably from the word "jasmine", due to their fragrant flowers).
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderSolanales
- FamilySolanaceae
夜香树属（学名：Cestrum）是茄科下的一个属，为灌木或乔木植物。该属共有约160种，主要分布于南美洲。[1] 参考文献 ^ 中国种子植物科属词典. 中国数字植物标本馆. （原始内容存档于2012-04-11）. 外部链接 維基物種中有關夜香树属的數據 这是一篇與植物相關的小作品。你可以通过编辑或修订扩充其内容。 查 论 编 取自“https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=夜香树属&oldid=44937233” 分类： 茄科 夜香树属 隐藏分类： 本地相关图片与维基数据不同 WikispeciesLatinName 全部小作品 植物小作品
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6,215
- With media
- 1,702
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Collections
- ECOSUR, CICY, INECOL, IIB-UV, IEA-UAT
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Research
178 papers- Functional, Chemical, and Phytotoxic Characteristics of Cestrum parqui L'Herit: An Overview.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
- Cestrum axillare (Solanaceae) poisoning in ruminants.Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology · 2022
- Poisoning in ruminants caused by species of the genus Cestrum L. (Solanaceae) in Brazil: A review of toxicological and phytochemical evidence.Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology · 2023
- Cestrum Parqui and psychosis.Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists · 2014
- Biosystematic studies of some Egyptian species of Cestrum (Solanaceae).Molecular biology reports · 2021
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description
- Uses and ecology
- Selected species
- References
- Further reading
Cestrum is a genus of — depending on authority — 150-250 species of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae. They are native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas, from the southernmost United States (Florida, Texas: day-blooming cestrum, C. diurnum) south to the Bío-Bío Region in central Chile (green cestrum, C. parqui). They are colloquially known as cestrums or jessamines (probably from the word "jasmine", due to their fragrant flowers).
==Description==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cestrum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.