Common name: Orange Cestrum
Cestrum aurantiacum Lindl. APNI* 
Description: Shrub to 4 m high, sparsely hairy on new growth.
Leaves ± elliptic to ovate, 7–10 cm long, usually 2.5–5 cm wide, base often asymmetric, lamina glabrous; petiole 1–4 cm long.
Inflorescences axillary and terminal, raceme-like; flowers 10–15, sessile or almost so. Calyx 5–8 mm long; lobes narrow-triangular to linear, 1–3 mm long. Corolla orange-yellow; tube 17–21 mm long, very slightly inflated above. Staminal filaments c. 5 mm long, with a blunt conical, hairy process at base; anthers c. 1.5 mm long.
Berry globose, c. 10 mm diam., white.
Flowering: throughout year.
Distribution and occurrence: Garden escape, north from Nowra district. Native of trop. Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC
Other Australian states: *Qld
Several species are cultivated as garden ornamentals and sometimes have become naturalized.
Text by B. J. Conn
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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