Tabernaemontana divaricata
Location Collected: Lehdau, Nett
Collected by: Rosalynda Nakasone
- Genus Species: Ervatamia divaricata or
Tabernaemontana divaricata
- Family: Apocynaceae
- Chuukese name: None
- English name: Gardenia, Crape, Rosebay, Firki
Tagar, Ceylon Jasmin, Wax Flower
- Kosraen name: None
- Pohnpeian name: None
- Yapese name: None
- Growth form: Shrub
- Growth location: Terrestial
- Growth environment: Cultivated Garden
- Growth zone: Tropical
- Average height: 54 cm
- Stem: Woody, smooth-no hairs, dark brownish
- Leaf arrangement: Opposite
- Stipule: Absent
- Petioles: 2 to 2.5 cm, smooth
- Leaf blade: Cordate, 4 to 6 cm wide and 9 to
15.5 cm long, accuminate tip, green, perfectly smooth,
very shiny surface, sinuate, pinnate venation
- Inflorescence: Rotate, 3 to 4 flowers sharing
a single base, pedicel- 3 cm, and no presence of hairs
- Floral bracts: None
- Flower: Actinomorphic, white, panicle
arrangement
- Calyx: None
- Corolla: Fused white corolla with 5 lobes
- Stamens: None
- Ovary: Inferior, light green, smooth, quite
small, one carpel
- Style: None
- Fruit: None
- Seed: None
- Anything else: No strong odor, moderate
growth rate, easily transplanted, branches, progated by
cuttings and airlayering
- Cultural usage: Decoration
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