Tabernaemontana arborea Rose

to 18 cm long and 6 cm wide, glabrous, firmly membranaceous; petioles to ca. 1 cm long, perfoliate when young and forming conspicuous rings on the stems, glandular in the axils. Inflorescences corymbose, sometimes broadly so, many-flowered, the peduncles short, the bracts not apparent. Flowers with the pedicels to 1 cm long; bracteoles present, variously placed, deltoid, ca. 1.5-2 mm long; calyx-lobes ovate, ca. 2-3 mm long, bearing several squamellae within; corolla white, the tube 6-8 mm long, pubescent within, the lobes obliquely ovate-ob-long, ca. 10-13 mm long; stamens included, attached low in the corolla tube, the anthers ca. 2.5 mm long, yellow throughout; ovary without a nectary, the style short, ca. 1 mm long, the stigma 5-lobed. Follicles reniform, stout, to 6 cm long, the pericarp dull-brown and verrucose; seeds rugose, + ovoid, ca. 10-12 mm long.

Moist or wet thickets or mixed forest, often in second growth, at elevations up to 600 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.