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Penang Botanic Gardens Plant Collection

Wrightia religiosa (Teijsm. & Binn.) Benth. ex Kurz (APOCYNACEAE)

Posted at — Nov 13, 2019
Water Jasmine, Common Wrightia

Description

Evergreen shrub or small tree to 5 m tall. Leaves opposite, 1.5-8.2 cm long. Flowers in branched terminal clusters, white, pendulous, fragrant, 1-2.5 cm long. Fruits paired follicles, 8.5-17.5 cm long, linear.

Ecology

Scattered in lowland forest and roadside, probably as an escape from cultivation.

Distribution

Native in Thailand, Cambodia and Peninsular Malaysia.

Uses

Very popular as an ornamental shrub.