Hi

You are my last chance.. Please excuse my english, but..

My mother brought a plant from Greece. It is a shrublike now 1m high plant
with small very little blossoms green/white with a very strong smell at night
- I guess they only open at night. As far as I know, the greek call this
plant "ippotos" (knight), but I didn't found anything in any book or website.

Can anyone help identifying this one?

Tia - JPB

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I don't seem to be able to find the picture?
PvR

JPB schreef
Hi

You are my last chance.. Please excuse my english, but..

My mother brought a plant from Greece. It is a shrublike now 1m high plant
with small very little blossoms green/white with a very strong smell at
night
- I guess they only open at night. As far as I know, the greek call this
plant "ippotos" (knight), but I didn't found anything in any book or
website.

Can anyone help identifying this one?

Tia - JPB

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On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 22:30:18 +0200, P van Rijckevorsel wrote
(in article ):

I don't seem to be able to find the picture?

Because there is none.. this is no binary-group afair..
But I could take some and put them on a website somewhere.

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JPB schreef
Because there is none.. this is no binary-group afair..
But I could take some and put them on a website somewhere.

+ + +
That would work
PvR

Due to many rainy days, the plant had no blossoms at all. But now I was able
to take some pictures. The blossoms only open at night so I took them this
evening - excuse the quality.. They are approx. 2cm long, the leafs up to
15cm.

photo1: http-removeme-://www.mein-zeugs.de/pub/ippotos1.jpg
photo2: http-removeme-://www.mein-zeugs.de/pub/ippotos2.jpg


Ne1 has the botanical (latin) name?






On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 20:39:09 +0200, JPB wrote
(in article ):

Hi

You are my last chance.. Please excuse my english, but..

My mother brought a plant from Greece. It is a shrublike now 1m high plant
with small very little blossoms green/white with a very strong smell at
night
- I guess they only open at night. As far as I know, the greek call this
plant "ippotos" (knight), but I didn't found anything in any book or website.

Can anyone help identifying this one?

Tia - JPB



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Cestrum nocturnum (Solanaceae), the night-blooming jasmine/jessamine.

MMMavocado wrote:

Cestrum nocturnum (Solanaceae), the night-blooming jasmine/jessamine.


many thanks.. so I was wrong searching european plants. I wonder why the
greek already have a word for it. Must have been brought to Greece then
quite early last century.

And what do I learn again? Never trust the place you find a plant these
days.. *sigh*

Cestrum nocturnum (Solanaceae), the night-blooming jasmine/jessamine.
BRBR

Try Logee's and some of the southern nurseries. Have you done a Google search?
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

Zeitkind wrote in
:

MMMavocado wrote:

Cestrum nocturnum (Solanaceae), the night-blooming
jasmine/jessamine.


many thanks.. so I was wrong searching european plants. I wonder
why the greek already have a word for it. Must have been brought
to Greece then quite early last century.

And what do I learn again? Never trust the place you find a plant
these days.. *sigh*


Two ways for a Greek to get a name for some plant. 1) There has
always been a Greek name for it because it grows there. 2) Ask
someone that they are buying it from "what is that?" and either use
the reply or translate it into Greek.

Sean