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Allamanda cathartica

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Propagation

C.S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental & medicinal, with cultivars

Hardiness Zone

Min 10C 10-11

Offspring

Allamanda cathartica 'Grandiflora', Allamanda cathartica 'Hendersonii', Allamanda cathartica 'Jamaican Sunset', Allamanda cathartica 'Stansill's Double', Allamanda 'Cherry's Jubilee' (A. 'Caribbean Sunrise')

Common Names

• Golden Trumpet
• Climbing Allamanda
• Common Allamanda
• Gold Vine
• Ruan zhi huang chan (Pinyin)
• Har-kara (India)
• Yellow Allamanda
• Canario
• Wal-ruk-attana (Sri Lanka)
• Shwe-pan-nwe (Myanmar)
• Shwewa-pan (Myanmar)
• Cây hayuh (Vietnam)
• Bejuco de San José (Costa Rica)
• Jalapa (Costa Rica)
• Bunga Telur Raja (Malay)
• Jaharsontakka (Sanskrit)
• Jasmin D'amarille or Orélie de la Guyane or Alamande (French)
• Trimpeta de Oro (Ecuador)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Marahão - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Swamps & stream banks
• coastal swamp forest

Flowering Times

• All year

Fruiting Times

Robust evergreen woody glabrous climber, young branches hairy, twining liana to 8m or shrub. Leathery leaves glabrous above, rusty puberulous below 150mm x 60mm. Terminal & axillary cymes of scented? 140mm yellow flowers with white spot between lobes, calyx lobes to 15mm long, 5-lobed bright yellow corolla to 90mm long, corolla tube to 35mm x 2mm diameter at base & 40mm long x 35mm diameter, corolla lobes 35mm long. Spiny oval seed capsule 75mm diameter X 50mm, 10mm spines.

Garden escapee. Poisonous to eat in all parts.

Cultivated for medicine in China, ornamental

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• FOC
• RHS A-Z
• Llamas 2003
• Zuchowski
• Bodkin
• FB
• Exotica,
• NHSL
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• NAF
• Kew
• SAFIO
• Standley
• Wiart 2
• Mendoza