Adenandra fragrans(Sims) Schult.

smelly chinaflower

WFO wfo-0000519765 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Adenandra fragrans, photographed by Chris Vynbos
fig. a Chris Vynbos, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-06-15 / obs. 42309682
Adenandra fragrans, photographed by jillblignaut
fig. b jillblignaut, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15560454
Adenandra fragrans, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. c Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 21769459
Adenandra fragrans, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. d Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 21769414
Adenandra fragrans, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. e Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 21769671
Adenandra fragrans, photographed by Di Turner
fig. f Di Turner, CC0 1.0 / obs. 15354672
Adenandra fragrans, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. g Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 21894106
Adenandra fragrans, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15399438

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Where it actually grows measured, from 34 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 1.4 °C 4.8 °C 5.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.2 °C 26.8 °C 26.8 °C
Annual rainfall 558 mm 576 mm 651 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 114 mm 119 mm 123 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 34 research-grade observations of Adenandra fragrans that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Adenandra amoena (G.Lodd.) Link
  • Adenandra fragrans var. amoena (Lodd.) Bartl. & H.L.Wendl.
  • Diosma amoena G.Lodd.
  • Diosma fragrans Sims
  • Glandulifolia amoena (G.Lodd.) Kuntze
  • Glandulifolia fragrans Kuntze

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.