Adam's apple tree

Definition 
This particular tree is popularly named for Adam and the entire genus containing it was named by Linnaeus in honor of German botanist Dr. J. T. Tabernaemontanus (d. 1590), a celebrated Heidelberg botanist and physician who—despite the length of his patronym—also has species in two other plant genera commemorating him. Why the folkname Adam's apple tree? Clearly still another case of a claim on Eden. I quote from the Encyclopedia of Gardening (1838) by J. C. Loudon: "The inhabitants of Ceylon say that Paradise was a place in their country … They also point out as the tree which bore the forbidden fruit, the Devi Ladner or Tabernaemontana alternifoxlia [the species name has since been changed to coronaria] … In confirmation of the tradition they refer to the beauty of the fruit, and the fine scent of the flowers, both of which are most tempting. The shape of the fruit gives the idea of a piece having been bitten off; and the inhabitants say it was excellent before Eve ate of it, though it is now poisonous." T. coronaria, a five-to-eight-foot-high tropical shrub with white fragrant flowers, is also called the East Indian rosebay, crape jasmine, and nero's crown, after the Roman emperor.