Common name: Green Cestrum, Green Poisonberry, Willow Leaved Jessamine
Cestrum parqui L'Hér. APNI* 
Description: Woody shrub to 3 m high; new shoots and leaf axils minutely hairy.
Leaves narrow-elliptic to lanceolate, 2–7 cm long, usually 1–3 cm wide; petiole to 1 cm long.
Inflorescences terminal, panicle-like, congested; flowers sessile or on pedicels ≤ 10 mm long. Calyx 3–5 mm long; lobes triangular, c. 1 mm long. Corolla greenish yellow; tube narrow, 15–18 mm long. Staminal filaments 6–7 mm long, swollen and retrorsely hairy in lower part; anthers 0.5–1 mm long.
Berry ± ovoid, 10–15 mm long, black.
Flowering: throughout year.
Distribution and occurrence: Garden escape, east from Moama area. Native of S Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *NWP, *SWP
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *S.A.
A declared noxious weed in some shires. Toxic to stock if eaten.
Text by B. J. Conn
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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