Bush Allamanda
Allamanda neriifolia
- Habit
- Shrub
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Bush Allamanda
Identify Bush 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: Oleander-like narrow leaves, shrubby habit.
- Confirm leaf arrangement: Whorled.
- Confirm leaf shape: Obovate.
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- Confirm it sits within the Apocynaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Bush Allamanda.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Allamanda neriifolia
- Genus
- Allamanda
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Garden plant
- Habitat type
- Cultivated
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
Leaf characters
- Leaf arrangement
- WhorledrecordedThree or more leaves arise from the same point around the stem.“The elliptic to obovate leaves are arranged in whorls of 3–5 or are subopposite along the stem, and measure 2–14 cm long and 1.1–4 cm wide.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf shape
- ObovaterecordedEgg-shaped but broader near the tip rather than the base.“The elliptic to obovate leaves are arranged in whorls of 3–5 or are subopposite along the stem, and measure 2–14 cm long and 1.1–4 cm wide.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Bush Allamanda itself; the rest are typical of the Apocynaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Follicle
Characters marked “recorded” are for Bush Allamanda itself; the rest are typical of the Apocynaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Bush Allamanda
Bush Allamanda (Allamanda neriifolia) belongs to the Apocynaceae family, where it grows as a shrub. It grows in garden plant. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Uses
In practice it is planted as an ornamental.
Apocynaceae
Dogbane family
Bush Allamanda belongs to the Apocynaceae family.
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