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Heliotropium arborescens (garden heliotrope)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The garden heliotrope (Heliotropium arborescens) is a highly fragrant perennial plant, originally from Peru. It is especially notable for its intense, rather vanilla-like fragrance. Common names include cherry pie and common heliotrope. Note that the common name "garden heliotrope" may also refer to Valerian (herb), which is not a heliotropium variety.
View Wikipedia Record: Heliotropium arborescens

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  The seeds are poisonous;
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Lepidoptera
Scent [2]  The flowers have a most unusual perfume, somewhat like cherries baked in a pie.
Structure [2]  Shrub
Usage [2]  An essential oil obtained from the flowers is used in perfumery; The plant is sometimes used as a low hedge, though it is not hardy enough in Britain for this purpose;
Height [2]  39 inches (1 m)
Width [2]  39 inches (1 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Heliotropium arborescens

Predators

Hyalurga vinosa[4]
Pinnaspis strachani (lesser snow scale)[5]
Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (mulberry scale)[5]
Pseudococcus calceolariae (citrophilus mealybug)[5]
Xanthorhoe poseata[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0