Brunfelsia undulata Sw.

Species

Angiosperms > Solanales > Solanaceae > Brunfelsia

Characteristics

peduncle very short or wanting; pedicels 8-12 mm long. Flowers showy, calyx cyathiform, ca. 10 mm long, the lobes orbicular, 3-4 mm long; corolla white fading to yellow, sometimes with a small, brownish-purple eye, the tube slender, ca. 10 mm long and 2-3 mm across, pubescent in the lower half within, the limb ca. 1.5 cm across plus the 5, orbicular lobes, 10-15 mm long; filaments pubescent near the point of insertion and below, the anthers narrowly elliptic; stigma semilunar, green. Fruit not known in Panama.
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Glabrous shrub or tree to 5 m tall. Leaves narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, mostly 8-10 cm long, acute or acuminate apically, acute basally, the margins entire and sometimes slightly revolute; petioles less than 4 mm long, channelled above and often verrucose. Inflorescence a cluster of solitary, subterminal flowers, each sometimes subtended by a pair of foliaceous bracts 1-4 cm long;
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Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 4.5 - 5.5
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Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 3-4
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-11

Usage

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
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Minimum temperature (C°) 1
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Images

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Distribution

Brunfelsia undulata world distribution map, present in Ecuador, Honduras, Jamaica, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Panama, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:814695-1
WFO ID wfo-0001019911
COL ID 68T2B
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Synonyms

Brunfelsia undulata