Mexican Orange - Choisya ternata
An aromatic plant. It has glossy leaves divided into three leaflets and five-petalled white flowers.
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Often planted, and occasionally establishes as a garden throw-out, usually close to habitation.
Flowering May and sometimes again in late summer.
Evergreen perennial shrub.
Only occasionally recorded as an escape from cultivation in Britain although records are quite widespread.
Status away from cultivation in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
Graham Calow
Elmesthorpe St Mary's Churchyard grounds
20 September 2022
Graham Calow
Elmesthorpe St Mary's Churchyard grounds
20 September 2022
Graham Calow
Elmesthorpe St Mary's Churchyard grounds
20 September 2022
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Species profile
- Common names
- Mexican Orange
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Sapindales
- Family:
- Rutaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 20/09/2022 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 20/09/2022 (Calow, Graham)
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