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Tabernaemontana ID?

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These are growing on someones property (lots) in Taiwan. any thoughts? They are in full sun in grassy well cared for location.

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hard to tell - there are so many species. T.corymbosa is a likely one though.

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it looks alot like Voacanga africana to me.

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that would be nice, but it is surely not that. i am 99% positive on the genera, but the specie i do not know.

the first dead give away of not being voacanga is the fruit shape.

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definitely not voacanga.

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just a wild guess based on.... not much really

just a kinda, somewhat, wee bit similar photo :unsure:

i know nothing about this genus & it's rerlatives.

i'm gonna shut up now

good luck

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I know bugger all about either, but the fruit on both are forming in that lobular opposite way, spreading out from central points like mutant titties.The nodal segmentation seems kind of similar, and the leaves whilst different are similar in the way that a different frangipanis have very similar leaves. The stalks bearing fruit seem to form up in fairly similar ways. Looking at the lower greener fruit in the original pic and then looking at the one para put up, if one plant mugged me theres a fair chance I'd ID the other in a lineup :P

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the actual fruit shape quite different. similar in appearance maybe but theya re really different. that and i have seen the plants in person so i can say with 100% certainty it is Tabernaemontana. still not positivce on specie though...one day.

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Similar in appearance but really different... that sounds like something I'd say :P Having actually taken time to look around, I've worked out the reason frangis sprang to mind is the whole apocynaceae thing, opposing pods should've rang some bells but I'm a lousy kind of dog.

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that said there are something like 350-400 species in this genus, i think.

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