A dense Cestrum elegans cluster carries deep pink tubular flowers with flared lobes and small yellow-green centers beside gray twigs

Cestrum elegans (Purple Cestrum)

Native to Mexico, this evergreen shrub in the nightshade family grows about 6 to 10 feet tall, with arching or scrambling branches. Young stems and the undersides of the oval leaves are hairy. Dense clusters of pink, red, or purple tubular flowers develop at the branch tips, followed by red to reddish-purple berries. In Britain, flowering usually occurs from summer to autumn. All parts are poisonous if eaten. It is naturalized in New Zealand, where it is an environmental weed. Photographed in Bogotá, Colombia.

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