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Tabernaemontana divaricata
Also called Adam's Apple, Butterfly Gardenia, Crape Gardenia, Crape Jasmine, Flowers Of Love, Pinwheel Flower, Ceylon Jessamine
In Singapore: Pinwheel Flower, East Indian Rosebay, Moon Beam, Ceylon Jasmine, Susun Kelapa, Susoh Ayam, Crepe Jasmine, Crepe Gardenia, Adam's Apple, Nero's Crown, Coffee Rose, Jelutong Badak, Double-Flowered Crepe Jasmine (Cultivated in Singapore)
An evergreen shrub or small tree with glossy leaves and fragrant white pinwheel-shaped flowers, grown as a houseplant where frost-free. Give it bright light and steady moisture in a warm, humid spot.
Tabernaemontana divaricata, commonly called pinwheel flower, crape jasmine, Ceylon jasmine, East India rosebay, and Nero's crown, is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to South Asia, Southeast Asia and China. In zones where it is not hardy it is grown as a house/glasshouse plant for its attractive flowers and foliage. The stem exudes a milky latex when broken, whence comes the name milk flower.
The species is known to produce many alkaloids including catharanthine, conolidine, coronaridine, dregamine, ibogamine, tabersonine, voacangine, voacamine and voacristine. Ibogaine may occur in multiple Tabernaemontana species.
Tabernaemontana coffeoides · Tabernaemontana corymbosa · Adam's Apple Flower · Low Veld Toadtree · Giant Pinwheel Flower · Tabernaemontana undulata · Forest Toad Tree · Milkwood
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tabernaemontana divaricata 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.
