Early Jessamine

Description

Cestrum fasciculatum-is a species of flowering plant in the-nightshade family-known by the common names-early jessamine-and-red cestrum. It is native to central-Mexico, but it is also kept elsewhere as an-ornamental plant. This is a gangly evergreen-shrub-reaching a maximum height of over two meters. The stems, and especially new twigs, are sometimes purple in color and slightly hairy. It bears hairy, oval-shaped, pointed green leaves up to 13 centimeters long. Plentiful-inflorescences-appear at the tips of stem branches, each a dense cluster of up to 10 hairy red flowers. Each tubular flower is 2 or 3 centimeters long, counting the elongated calyx of-sepals-and the long corolla. The fruit is a berry about 1.5 centimeters wide which is red on the outside and white inside with about 10 small brown seeds.