Chilean (Green) Cestrum (Cestrum parqui) (Nox)
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Scientific name: Cestrum parqui L’Her
Common Name: Green cestrum, Green poisonberry
Status: Regionally Prohibited in the Port Phillip & Westernport (East and West), West Gippsland and East Gippsland CMAs.
Regionally Controlled in the Wimmera, Goulburn Broken and North East CMAs.
Restricted in the Mallee, North Central, Glenelg-Hopkins and Corangamite CMAs.
Habitat: Warm-temperate and subtropical regions, mainly on alluvial soils along streams (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Often promoted as a garden plant, it has become naturalised as a weed in towns and higher rainfall rural areas (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Green cestrum invades bush margins (Champion 1995).
Related Links
Further information on Chilean (Green) Cestrum can be found on the DPI Website, Pest Plant Notes.
Weed Identification Note for Green Cestrum - on the Weeds Australia website (external link). Information is provided on the generalised current distribution in Australia as well as other information such as origin, distinguishing features, dispersal etc.
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This document was last reviewed on 04/09/2008