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Cascabela thevetia (L.) Lippold

മെക്സിക്കൻ ഒലിയാൻറ്റർ

Family : APOCYNACEAE

Synonym : Thevetia peruviana (Pers.) K.Schum.

Common Names : Mexican Oleander, Yellow Oleander, Lucky Nut

Flowering Period : Throughout the year

Distribution : Native of Tropical America; now Pantropical

Habitat : Mostly grown as live fence

Uses : Ornamental garden plant

Key Characters :

Large shrub to small trees. Leaves alternate, clustered near tips of branches, linear-lanceolate, margin recurved, apex acute, glabrous. Flowers in sub-terminal cymes. Calyx lobes 5, lanceolate, unequal, tube short. Corolla large, golden-yellow, funnel-shaped; throat villous; lobes 5, obovate. Stamens 5, included; anthers oblong-cordate. Ovary depressed-conic; stigma conic with a basal ring. Drupe broadly turbinate, compressed laterally. Seeds few strongly flattened.