Allamanda cathartica L.

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Allamanda > A. cathartica

Description: An ever green scandent shrub; branches circular, smooth and green. Leaves in whorls of 4 or opposite, oblong, obovate or oblanceolate, acuminate, cuneate, ± coriaceous, penni-nerved, entire, glabrous above, pilose on nerves beneath; petiole short. Inflorescence axillary or a terminal cymose panicle, bracts deciduous. Flower showy, bright yellow. c. 8 cm in diameter. Sepals 5, lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla tube throat infundibuliform, lobes orbricular-rotundate, glabrous. Stamens inserted in the throat, acute, filament very short; style, filiform. Fruit a globose-subglobose prickly, capsule, prickles soft. Seeds many, obovate, flat winged.

Flowering and Fruiting: Throughout the year

Uses: Leaves and roots are used in traditional herbal medicine as a purgative

Cultivation: Wild and Cultivated

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org