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Photo by Muckpuk
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Field Notes

Description:

Green shiny leaves, VERY fragrant little white flower, 5 petals looking like a pinwheel. green shiny seed pods (the ones closed) and red rimmed open seed pods with some red left over seeds hanging on.

Habitat:

In the cloudforest on the volcano Mount Scenery of Saba, near Caribbean Sea. Dutch Caribbean.

Notes:

This little flower looks and smells like a Jasmin. But when looking up Jasmin seed pods I find NOTHING that looks like these! PLEASE HELP identifying this bush.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (1)

Can it be Australin Pinwheel flower? Many things match. https://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/Tabernaemontana_australis.htm

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