Allamanda cathartica
COMMON NAME | Golden trumpet,
common or yellow allamanda |
TYPE | Shrub |
FAMILY | Apocynaceae |
NOTES | Primarily grown as a
climbing vine, but may also be pruned as a shrub. As a vine, it will grow
rapidly to 20’. Features clusters of yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers,
wavy-margined, obovate, light green leaves (4-6” long) that appear in whorls
of 3-4 or in pairs along the stems. |
GEOGRAPHIC REGION | Native to Brazil |
NATIVE HABITAT | Found growing near
coasts, climbing through trees or shrubs in mangrove swamps and along lowland
streams. |
WEB SOURCES |
