Cestrum nocturnum Bill Cawthon The old Japanese name for

The old Japanese name for them

The flower spikes run larger than the straight species and open later in the season

Photos courtesy of the JC Raulston Arboretum

and very showy

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Cestrum nocturnum Bill Cawthon The old Japanese name forFew plants announce themselves the way Cestrum nocturnum does, and never by daylight. Through the afternoon the shrub keeps to a quiet, almost ordinary green, the slender branches arching and half climbing, the small tubular flowers furled and unremarkable. Then dusk arrives, the cream green trumpets open, and the night blooming jasmine releases a perfume so far reaching that it carries across a whole garden on still, warm air. A member of the