- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Tabernaemontana divaricata
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Apocynaceae.
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Crepe jasmine, Nandiyar-vattom.
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- More or less throughout the year.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Pan-tropical.
- 💡 Status
- Least Concern.
Description: Glabrous shrub, with milky latex. Leaves simple, opposite, elliptic-oblong or obovate or oblanceolate. Flowers white, fragrant, ‘single’ or ‘double’, in terminal cymes. Usually does not set fruits.
Uses: Commonly cultivated in gardens. Flowers are medicinal.