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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. |