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Trachelospermum asiaticum

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Natural Science Specimen

  • Classifier
  • Scientific Name
    Trachelospermum asiaticum (Sieb. & Zucc.) Nakai
  • Classification
  • Family
  • Genus
  • Species
  • Specimen Category
  • 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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