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FLOWERS
The flowers are very small, about 1.2cm wide,
creamy-white, star-shaped and borne in small
clusters on the leaf axils.
They are bisexual, with 8 white petals, each with
two side lobes, joined into a star-like corolla with
24 points and they fall off as a ring.
There are 8 fertile stamens, alternating with 8
staminodes. The flowers open at twilight and
gradually become very fragrant through the
night, until the next morning when they are shed.
LEAF
Petioles and twigs produce a watery milky
exudate.
Terminal buds and younger leafy twigs
clothed in brown hairs.
Leaf blades about 3-11 x 2-5 cm.
Lateral veins forming loops just inside the
blade margin.
Stipules narrow, about 3-5 mm long,
tapering to a point. Stipules caducous. 02
