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Citrus sp.

Citrus

Scientific Name: Citrus sp.

Common Name: Citrus

Family: Apocynaceae 

Habit type: Tree 

Leaves 

Simple, alternatively arranged, shiny, dark green and distantly serrated. 

Bark 

Dark gray barks having horizontal lenticels. 

Flower 

● The sweetly perfumed flowers are funnel-shaped, bright yellow or peach coloured, 5.5–7cm long and 2.5–4cm wide, grouped in clusters at the end of the branches. 

Fruit 

● Spheroidal drupes with one seed. 

● The fruit are angular, green when immature, ripening black, broader than long and somewhat triangular in outline, with a raised ridge around the middle, about 3–4.5cm in diameter. 

FACTS & MEDICINAL USES 

Yellow oleander trees are so small that many consider them large bushes. Yellow oleander information suggests that these evergreen plants rarely get over 10 feet (3 m.) when cultivated, although they can get to 20 feet (6 m.) in the wild. 

The flower of yellow oleander looks like a narrow tube that flares out at the tip into five petals, twisted into a spiral shape. They are fragrant, about 2 inches (5 cm.) long, and grow in clusters. A mechanism inside the throat of the flowers helps with pollination. It coats insects coming for the sweet nectar with pollen, ensuring they will transfer pollen to the next flower. 

Yellow oleander trees’ thick fruit has four sides and changes colours as it matures. The fruit starts green, then turns lipstick red, but finally matures into a dull black. The stone inside is brown and smooth and makes nice necklaces