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Premna odorata
Premna odorata is a small tropical tree or scrambling shrub in the mint family, native to South and Southeast Asia and northern Australia. It thrives in warm, humid, frost-free conditions and is mainly grown as an ornamental or for traditional medicine.
Premna odorata, the fragrant premna, is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family. It is native to the Indian subcontinent, Yunnan, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and northern Australia, and naturalized in southern Florida.
A small tree rarely reaching 10 m, it is used as a source for traditional medicine in the Philippines, and is planted occasionally as an ornamental there and elsewhere.
Japanese Premna · Premna parasitica · Premna puberula · Bastard Guelder
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Premna odorata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
