Nerium oleander L.

Nerium oleander L.

APOCYNACEAE

- Dogbane family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Nerium oleander L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 209 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Oleander

English name: oleander

English name: rose bay

Spanish name: pascua

French name: oleandre

Italian name: Oleandro

Grown habit: Tree, Shrub
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Nerium
Species:

Page counter: 3293 ( AVG: 222.27 / 291.354 )

Gallery:

Nerium oleander
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Tivoli, Villa Adriana, RO, Lazio, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Nerium oleander
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.

Nerium oleander
Credit: Photo by Antonino Messina

Nerium oleander
Credit: Photo by L.R.

Nerium oleander

Nerium oleander
Pink flowers at Spreckelsville, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Nerium oleander
Flowers at Makawao, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Nerium oleander

Nerium oleander
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Venezia, Sestiere San Marco, nei pressi del Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, VE, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Nerium oleander

Nerium oleander
Flowers at Kahului, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Nerium oleander
Light yellow flowering hedge at Launiupoko, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Nerium oleander
Hedge at Calico Basin, Nevada - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Nerium oleander
Flowers at Home Depot Nursery Kahului, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Nerium oleander

Nerium oleander
White flower form with fruit at Kihei, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Nerium oleander

Nerium oleander
Double flowers at Enchanting Floral Gardens of Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Nerium oleander
Credit: Photo by L.R.

Nerium oleander

Nerium oleander
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Nerium oleander

Nerium oleander
Light yellow flowers at Launiupoko, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Nerium oleander
Habit at Sarasota, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AZ, CA, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, TX, UT), USA+ (PR, VI)

Distributional map for Nerium oleander L.
Map for Nerium oleander L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Nertera granadensis (L. f.) Druce [154]
2) Nertera granadensis (L. f.) Druce var. insularis Skottsb. [148]
3) Nesaea salicifolia Kunth [208]
4) Nesolechia cladoniscum (Willey) Fink [151]
5) Nesolechia thallicola (A. Massal.) A. Massal. [141]
6) Neubeckia verna (L.) Alef. [153]
7) Neurophyllodes ovatifolium (A. Gray) O. Deg. & Greenw. [92]
8) Nezera striata (Walter) Nieuwl. [141]
9) Nicotiana alata Link & Otto [2287]
10) Nicotiana palmeri A. Gray [153]

28-Apr-2024 - Week-17