Taxon: Cestrum parqui L’Hér.

Common names:

• Chilean cestrum   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• green cestrum   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• green poison-berry   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English
  
• iodine-bush   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• willow-leaf-jessamine   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• Chileense inkbessie   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• coerana   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide L Nepal; Dict Gard)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (to livestock fide Kingsbury; Kellerman et al.; Pammel; Everist; Noxweed Aust)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Cestrum parqui from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo
  Western South America: Bolivia
  Southern South America: Argentina [n. & c.]; Chile [n. & c.]; Paraguay; Uruguay

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios.
• Cabrera, A. L., dir. 1977–. Flora de la provincia de Jujuy, Republica Argentina.
• Cabrera, A. L., ed. 1965–1970. Flora de la provincia de Buenos Aires.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Everest, S. L. 1981. Poisonous plants of Australia. [poisonous].
• Freire de Carvalho, L. d'A. 1997. Diversidade taxônomica das Solanáceas no estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) - I. Albertoa 4:255.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. [cultivated].
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Henderson, M. et al. 1987. Declared weeds and alien invader plants in South Africa. Botanical Research Institute, bulletin 413.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. [poisonous].
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Navas-Bustamante, L. E. 1973–1979. Flora de la cuenca de Santiago de Chile.
• Pammel, L. H. 1911. Manual of poisonous plants. [poisonous].
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. [naturalized].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cestrum parqui.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cestrum parqui.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cestrum parqui.

Check other web resources for Cestrum parqui L’Hér.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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