Purple Allamanda
Allamanda blanchetii
- Habit
- Shrub
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Purple Allamanda
Identify Purple Allamanda by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a shrub habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Purple-pink trumpet flowers.
- Confirm flower colour: Purple.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Goa and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Apocynaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Purple Allamanda.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Allamanda blanchetii
- Genus
- Allamanda
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Habit
- Shrub
- Native to
- Tropical America
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Goa, Kerala, West Bengal, Telangana, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Tripura, Haryana, Lakshadweep, Manipur, Meghalaya, Delhi, Puducherry
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Typical of the Apocynaceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- PurplerecordedPurple or violet
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Follicle
Characters marked “recorded” are for Purple Allamanda itself; the rest are typical of the Apocynaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Purple Allamanda
Purple Allamanda (Allamanda blanchetii) belongs to the Apocynaceae family, where it grows as a shrub. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and 22 other states. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Apocynaceae
Dogbane family
Purple Allamanda belongs to the Apocynaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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