Scientific Name: Nerium oleander
Common Name: oleander, rose bay
Family Name: Apocynaceae
Origin: Africa, Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 8b: (-9.4 to -7 °C)
Plant Type: Flowering pot plant
Mature Size: 2 - 3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading, Upright
Form: Vase
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Container planting, Indoor plant
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Humus rich, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Whorled, Leathery, Glabrous, Elliptic, Linear, Entire
Flowers: Cyme, White, Pink, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Capsule, Brown, Oct
Key ID Features:
Cold tender broadlef evergreen; leaves opposite linear to narrowly elliptic, glossy dark green leaves, prominent midribs, up to 12cm long; flowers in terminal cymes, petals (5 or cvs. with 10) fused at base, purple, pink or white.