Which is the flower shown in the picture?

"Nyctanthes arbor-tristis", the night-flowering jasmine or Parijat or Shiuli is a species of "Nyctanthes" native to South Asia and Southeast Asia. "Nyctanthes arbor-tristis" is a shrub or a small tree growing to 10 m (33 ft) tall, with flaky grey bark. The leaves are opposite, simple, 6–12 cm (2.4–4.7 in) long and 2–6.5 cm (0.79–2.56 in) broad, with an entire margin. The flowers are fragrant, with a five- to eight-lobed white corolla with an orange-red centre; they are produced in clusters of two to seven together, with individual flowers opening at dusk and finishing at dawn. The fruit is a bilobed, flat brown heart-shaped to round capsule 2 cm (0.79 in) diameter, each lobe containing a single seed.

Parijat appears in several Hindu religious stories and is often related to the Kalpavriksha. In one story, which appears in 'Bhagavata Purana', the Mahabharata and the Vishnu Purana, parijat appeared as the result of the 'Samudra manthan' (Churning of the Milky Ocean).

The tree is sometimes called the "tree of sorrow", because the flowers lose their brightness during daytime; the scientific name 'arbor-tristis' also means "sad tree". The flowers can be used as a source of yellow dye for clothing.

The flower is the official flower of the state of West Bengal, and is also known as Parijat, Shefali and Siuli in local West Bengal region in India. 'Nyctanthes arbor-tristis' is also commonly known as night-flowering jasmine and coral jasmine.

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Julie Allen

"Nyctanthes arbor-tristis", the night-flowering jasmine or Parijat or Shiuli is a species of "Nyctanthes" native to South Asia and Southeast Asia. AM I WRONG DOES THIS NOT SAY "JASMINE"?

Kat

Since this is called the "night-flowering Jasmine", why is Jasmine an incorrect answer? The questions and their so-called correct answers are getting way out of control. I think I'm quitting. I've become so fed up the last while, especially at losing points when my answer should have been considered correct.

Special Patrol Group

Jasmine should not have been used as an answer option as it is a type of jasmine as stated in the explanation and reference used.

David Hill

I agree Julie, I called it Jasmine too

billyboy915

Two correct answers are listed in the copy, yet Jasmine is considered wrong? Was this question vetted? SMH

teacherchicky

Ishwar Chandra Sinha, I've played this every day for 7 years and I agree! It's been taken over by juveniles with zero knowledge who just want to enjoy little word games instead of this being the knowledgeable site I originally joined! I used to use majority votes if I was 'stuck' but I don't trust the answers there today at all! The quality of Quizzclub has definitely gone downhill in the past two years! We should organize a coup! 😂

teacherchicky

I was looking for night flowering jasmine in the answers because friends of mine have several of these they were gifted from relatives at 'home'. I think the author should have not made one of his suggestions jasmine and not accepted it as an answer! Quizzclub, you're administration definitely needs to have a house cleaning where you have stricter policies for accepting questions and much better screeners to uphold the rules you already have here! In the seven years I've been playing every day, I've noticed a severe decline in the quality of questions and explanations are of extremely poor quality, while questions my friends and I have submitted were well researched but were rejected for not enough references, some of these pass through with a photo and no formal reference noted!!!

Ishwar Chandra Sinha

QuizzClub was supposed to be knowledge enhancing exercise ! Instead we are struggling with exceptions, tricks and one-up situations. Exceptions neither establish rules nor can change them. At best they are an avoidable burden which is enjoyed by some very sadistically. GOD bless the participants !!

Leapy Lee

Looking at it I wondered if it was a variety of Jasmine, but went with the name I didn’t know. If it had been a Jasmine I would have expected it to say what variety of Jasmine it was.