Its white fragrant pinwheel petals evoke nostalgic memories of my childhood in Belgium, where village landscapes are scattered with large wooden windmills. This connection is as personal as my ...

Originally isolated from the bark of a tropical, ornamental flowering plant Tabernaemontana divaricata (also known as crepe jasmine or pinwheel flower, pictured), the compound from the leaves and ...

MANILA, Philippines - Tabernaemontana divaricata cv.‘CV Lazaro’ is related to the Philippine native pandakaki (Tabernaemontana pandacaqui) but has white multi-petalled flowers with frills on ...

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have for the first time accomplished a laboratory synthesis of a rare natural product isolated from the bark of a plant widely ...

With its brief but beautiful blue star-shaped blooms, Blue Star (Amsonia tabernaemontana) is a popular and easy-to-grow ...

One of my favorite June blooming perennial plants is Amsonia tabernaemontana, commonly referred to as blue star. The genus name, Amsonia, honors an 18th century Virginia physician, Dr. Charles Amson.