Allamanda cathartica L.  

Family: Apocynaceae

Common Names (English): 


   Golden trumpet, Common


   allamanda 




Local Name (Kannada): 




Habit: Shrub




Distribution: 


Native of Tropical America 



Use: Medicinal

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Description:

Straggling shrubs. Leaves 3-4 in a whorl, elliptic or broadly oblong. Flowers in terminal or axillary short-peduncled cymes. Corolla yellow, 5-7 cm across, funnel-shaped; tube 4-6 cm long, lobes 5. Stamens 5; anthers subsessile