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Night Blooming Jasmine or Raat Ki Rani have flowers which grow in bunches and are pale green in color. They bloom only at night time and hence the name “Night Blooming Jasmine”. The fragrance of this flower is very attractive and spreads all over the garden and nearby places at night.
Night Blooming Jasmine or Raat Ki Rani have tiny flowers with light green stems to it. The leaves of the plant are smooth and simple with length of 4 to 8 inches. The plant grows to the height of 8 to 10 feet and 4 to 6 feet wide. The flowers bloom in warm season. The garden without these flowers is like perfume without fragrance. Other flowers make the garden beautiful but this flower makes the garden fragrant. After bloom, shinny white berries appear to the plant.
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•  Common Name: Night Blooming Jasmine, Raatrani (Marathi), Night Queen, Moon Flower, Lady of the Night, Queen of the Night, Night Blooming Jessamine, Night Blooming Cestrum, Raat Ki Rani (in Hindi and Urdu meaning Queen of the Night), Galán de Noche (Spanish), yè xiāng mù (Chinese), Night Scented Jessamine
• Botanical Name: Cestrum nocturnum
• Family: Solanaceae (Potato, Tomato family)
• Genus: Cestrum
• Spices: nocturnum
• Type: Perennial Plant- Climber
• Blooming Time: Mid Summer, Blooms Repeatedly
• Foliage: Evergreen
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Commonly Found: These flowers are commonly found in tropical countries like India, North and South America, West Indies. These are found in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin in America.
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Uses: The flowers are used for making perfume due to the sweet and strong fragrance. Along with this the plant is planted in the home garden or indoor garden.
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Cultivar: Orange Peel
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Other Species are given below:
- Cestrum elegans (Pink Cestrum, Red Cestrum, Purple Cestrum, Variegated Cestrum)
- Cestrum aurantiacum (range Cestrum, Yellow Shrub Jessamine)
- Cestrum parqui (Willow-leaved Cestrum)
- Cestrum psittacinum
- Cestrum guatemalensis
- Cestrum x cultum (Purple Cestrum 'Cretan Purple')
- Cestrum fasciculatum (Early Flowering Jessamine, Red Cestrum, Early Jessamine 'Newellii')
- Cestrum diurnum (Day Jessamine)
* Given in the brackets are the common names of the respective species with cultivars in the quotes.
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Photos and information on this page are contributed by Aarti Khale and Nishidha Patil respectively.
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