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Brunfelsia australis, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
(c) Toshiyuki IMAI, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA
#1764 most planted

Brunfelsia australis

Yesterday today & tomorrow · also Lady of the night, Jazmín de Malabar

Ornamental
19
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
1
city
3.9 in
median trunk (10 cm, 18 measured)

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Brunfelsia australis is a softly wooded, low bushy shrub typically growing up to 2 meters tall with slender, spreading branches. Its flowers change color from deep violet to pale violet, then white, and may be sweetly scented. Native to southern South America, it inhabits forest, woodland, and shrubland environments, and is noted to contain poisons.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Buenos Aires · Argentina
    19—3.9 in

No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.

Traits

Form
Ornamental
Mature height
6.6 ft

Trunk diameters across every city: median 3.9 in, mean 5.0 in, 90th percentile 9.8 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Other Brunfelsia in the catalogue

2 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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