Natural Science Specimen
Natural Science Specimen
Classifier
Scientific Name
Trachelospermum asiaticum (Sieb. & Zucc.) Nakai
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Family
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Storage Method
Field Collection Place
Locality Description
New Zealand, North Island, Gisborne Land District, Eastwoodhill Arboretum, I8, beside Redwood Path and steps
Field Collection Date
02 Dec 1997
Field Collection Notes
Climbing up to 4m. Many twisting trunks and stems, twiggy. Flowers have a very powerful, sweet scent. Leaves glossy mid-dark green, paler underside. Young branchlets brown-hairy, to green-hairy at tips. Leaves on ends of branchlets. Flowers 5-petalled star-like with edges of petals curved backwards, cream to peach-blushed with deeper orange centre. Opening flat from furled bud. Deeply recessed ovary and style. Sticky white milk oozes from broken stems.
Climbing on frame and up trees adjacent. Partially shady, warm sheltered situation.
Ex Eastwoodhill Arboretum, "EWH" 728, received Sept 2018
Field Collector
Field Collection latitude/longitude
-38.56178, 177.71864 (± 300 m)
177.71864, 177.71864 (± 300 m)
Last Update
23 Oct 2019
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