L'Hér., Solanaceae |
Present on Pacific Islands? yes
Primarily a threat at high elevations? no
Common name(s): [more details]
English: orange cestrum |
Spanish: dama olorosa, puta, sauco |
Habit: shrub
Description: "A slender-branched shrub 1-several meters high, glabrous except for the often finely puberulent inflorescence branches and flowers; petioles 1-1.5 cm long, often biauriculate at base, the auricles lunate and as long as or much shorter than the petioles; leaves oblong-ovate or -lanceolate, to 1 dm long or longer, often shorter, more or less acuminate, somewhat narrowed at base; flowers in terminal and axillary corymbose panicles, sessile or scarcely pedicellate, to about 2.5 cm long, yellowish-green with blackish or reddish-brown overtones; calyx glabrous to pubescent, nearly cyathiform, scarcely 2 mm long, the teeth minute; corolla tube filiform, enlarged above, often lightly puberulent, filaments free 1.5-3 mm, glabrous except adnate part, edentate; fruit fleshy, black" (McBride, 1962; pp.93-94).
Habitat/ecology: (no habitat/ecology info known by PIER)
Propagation: Seed
Native range: Ecuador and Peru; cultivated and naturalized elsewhere (GRIN).
Presence:
Pacific | |||
Country/Terr./St. & Island group |
Location |
Cited status &
Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction? |
Reference &
Comments |
Ecuador (Galápagos Islands)
San Cristóbal Group |
San Cristóbal Island |
introduced
invasive cultivated |
Charles Darwin Foundation (2008) |
Ecuador (Galápagos Islands)
Santa Cruz Group |
Santa Cruz Island |
introduced
invasive cultivated |
Charles Darwin Foundation (2008) |
Pacific Rim | |||
Country/Terr./St. & Island group |
Location |
Cited status &
Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction? |
Reference &
Comments |
South America (Pacific rim)
South America (Pacific rim) |
Ecuador (Republic of) (continental) |
native
|
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013) |
South America (Pacific rim)
South America (Pacific rim) |
Perú (Republic of) |
native
|
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013) |
Control: If you know of control methods for Cestrum auriculatum, please let us know.