Cestrum

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Solanaceae

• Scientific Name

  Cestrum

• Description

  Description - Shrubs or trees, with alternate entire petioled leaves, the mostly yellow or white flowers in cymes or panicled. Calyx 5-lobed or 5-toothed. Corolla salverform or funnel form, the tube long, slender, the 5 lobes spreading. Stamens borne on the corolla-tube, included; filaments filiform, often pilose below, sometimes with a tooth-like appendage; anthers small, their sacs parallel. Ovary 2-celled, usually short-stipitate; ovules few; style filiform; stigma dilated, entire or 2-lobed. Fruit a small berry. Seeds oblong, smooth. [Greek, hammer, referring to the filaments.] Perhaps 150 species, natives of tropical America. Type species: Cestrum nocturnum L.