Australian and New Zealand Gardening: What PLANT did you buy?????, 1 by cestrum_SEQ

cestrum_SEQ wrote:
Here are a few things I bought at the Glebe Garden Club Festival: the purple cestrum. Not scented, but it's one more to add to my collection.

Hmmm, an internet search shows that this is a synonym for C. elegans, which I already have. But if the picture on the label is to be believed (huh!), the colour of this plant is definitely more purple than the pale pink of my plant labelled as C. elegans. I guess I'll just have to wait until it flowers to check.

I remember now that a sprig of the purple cestrum was passed around at a cottage-garden talk at the expo. The flowers on it were purple, not the pale pink on my C. elegans, so this is a different colour--perhaps a cultivar of C. elegans rather than a new species, but definitely different.

This message was edited Aug 29, 2010 10:39 AM