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Cestrum diurnum

Common Name: dayflowering jessamine

Family: Solanaceae

Common Synonyms: none

USDA Hardiness Zone: 8a - 11

Growth Habit: Shrub

Origin: Tropical America

FISC Category: 2

FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No

Introduction Date: pre-1930's

IFAS Assessment:

  • North: CAUTION
  • Central: CAUTION
  • South: CAUTION
Cestrum diurnum
FNAI

Description

Evergreen branched shrub or small tree to 2 m tall. Alternate, simple, leaves, short-stalked, 5-11 cm long, dark, shiny green. White fragrant flowers, trumpet-shaped, and small in stalked clusters at leaf axils. Flowers year-round. Fruit an oval black to violet berry when ripe.

Habitat

Coastal uplands, flatwoods, marl prairie, disturbed sites

Comments

Vouchered north to Hillsborough Co., established in south. Seeds dispersed by birds.

Map of species distribution

Control Methods

  • Manual: Mechanical: Hand pull whenever possible
  • Chemical: Basal bark (10% triclopyr ester), likely sensitive to cut stump (50% triclopyr amine) for foliar treatment (
  • Biological: NA

Control Notes

NA

References

Dave's Garden. 2013. PlantFiles: Day Jessamine, Cestrum diurnum. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2742/. Accessed on December 3, 2013.

IFAS, Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants. 2013. Day jessamine. http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/node/97. Accessed on December 2, 2013.

Langeland, K.A., J.A. Ferrell, B. Sellers, G.E. MacDonald, and R.K. Stocker. 2011. Integrated management of non-native plants in natural areas of Florida. EDIS publication SP 242. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

Langeland, K.A., H.M. Cherry, C.M. McCormick, K.C. Burks. 2008. Identification and Biology of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas-Second Edition. IFAS Publication SP 257. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

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