Tabernaemontana laurifolia L.
Sling-shot, Wild Jasmine
Family: APOCYNACEAE
Grand Cayman and Jamaica, in dry, rocky woodlands on limestone
Brunt 1967, Correll & Correll,
Howard & Wagenknecht, Proctor
FLORA of the CAYMAN ISLANDS
by George R. Proctor p.519, Plate 49
Cayman Islands Red List status: Near Threatened
Grand Cayman, May 26, 2014
A small tree with white latex
Grand Cayman, May 23, 2014
BRANCHING: opposite
Grand Cayman, May 26, 2014
LEAVES: OPPOSITE, waxy, shiny CaymANNature Herbarium
Grand Cayman, Dec. 7, 2005
FLOWERS: greenish-yellow,
pinwheel-like, scented
FRUIT: 2 broad, fleshy follicles,
with orange arils, in which the seeds are embedded
CaymANNature Flora
Grand Cayman, Dec. 7, 2005
It grows in dry, rocky woodlands on limestone.
Grand Cayman, March 5, 2009.
Grand Cayman, March 5, 2009.
It is a suitable small tree for landscaping, easy maintenance.
Collected
by Sir Hans Sloane in Jamaica
Natural History
Museum, London
Collected
by Sir Hans Sloane in Jamaica
Voyages
of discovery were an important part of the search for a new order in the
natural world. Tony Rice charts Sir Hans Sloane's seventeenth-century
expedition to Jamaica,
a voyage that produced one of the world's most significant natural history
collections. Sloane amassed a hoard of thousands of natural history books,
objects and artworks in his quest for a rationalist approach to the study of
nature.
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