Golden Trumpet Vine
Allamanda cathartica
Also known as Common Allamanda
- Habit
- Liana
- Found in India
- Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Golden Trumpet Vine
Identify Golden Trumpet Vine by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a liana habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Bright golden-yellow trumpet flowers.
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Apocynaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Golden Trumpet Vine.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Allamanda cathartica
- Genus
- Allamanda
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Habit
- Liana
- Habitat
- Garden plant
- Habitat type
- Cultivated
- Native to
- Tropical America
- Distribution
- Tropical America; Cultivated in other parts of the world
- Found in India
- Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Odisha, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Puducherry, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh
- 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
- Yellowrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Follicle
Characters marked “recorded” are for Golden Trumpet Vine itself; the rest are typical of the Apocynaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Bengali
- অলকানন্দা
- Telugu
- అల్లెనంద తీగ
- Kannada
- ಪೊಕ್ಕು ಆಟ
- Malayalam
- കോളാമ്പി, Allamanda cathartica
About Golden Trumpet Vine
A member of the Apocynaceae family, Golden Trumpet Vine (Allamanda cathartica) is a woody climber. In India it has been recorded in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and 17 other states. It grows in garden plant. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Apocynaceae
Dogbane family
Golden Trumpet Vine belongs to the Apocynaceae family.
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