This large shrub has slender stems with milky sap and spreading branches that form a rounded bushy habit. It has large  dark green oblong leaves and scented white star-shape flowers appear in a cluster from late spring to summer.

Hardiness zones 10 to 12

Tabernaemontana ventricosa is naturally found in tropical Asia growing in fertile moist but well drained soil in a protected sunny position and is frost and drought tender.

The Pinwheel Flower is grown for its flowers and bushy habit. It is planted in parks and gardens as a specimen or along shrub borders for screening. It is also used in fragrant tropical gardens and establishes in 3 to 5 years. It is also grown in botanic collections and in cold regions under glass. ID 795

Tabernaemontana (tab’-ur-nee-mahn-TAN-a) ventricosa (ven-tre-KO-sa)

Apocynaceae (a-pos-ih-NAY-see-ee)