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Cascabela thevetia (L.) Lippold

Yellow oleander (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Cascabela

Characteristics

Shrub to 4 m tall. Leaves with petiole 1–3 mm long; lamina linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, to 15 cm long, to 15 mm wide, attenuate, acute or short-to long-acuminate, discolorous; upper surface glossy dark green, with venation obscure; lower surface pale green, with venation just visible but not prominent. Flowers 50–60 mm long, 24–35 mm diam.; pedicels 20–37 mm long. Corolla yellow or orange; tube 25–28 mm long, 10–15 mm diam. at throat; lobes obovate, 27–33 mm long, 13–15 mm wide. Disc annular. Fruit 20–27 mm long, 28–30 mm wide, black when ripe.
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A shrub. It grows 6 m high. The leaves are narrow and shiny. They are 7-16 cm long by 1 cm wide. The flowers are yellow and 3-6 cm long. The fruit are pear shaped and 2-4 mm long by 3-5 cm wide. The seeds are 12 mm long by 14 mm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 1.5
Mature height (meter) 4.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in evergreen lowland forests and along rivers. It grows between 50-200 m above sea level. In XTBG Yunnan.
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Occurs near old habitations or in creeks.
Light 5-7
Soil humidity 2-7
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Caution: The bark, roots, seed kernels and sap are highly poisonous. Although the fruit is recorded as eaten this should be with extreme caution.
Uses afforestation animal food environmental use food fuel material medicinal oil poison social use wood
Edible fruits seeds
Therapeutic use Antipyretics (bark), Cathartics (bark), Emetics (bark), Fever (bark), Cathartics (leaf), Emetics (leaf), Insecticides (leaf), Narcotics (leaf), Antirheumatic agents (plant exudate), Joint diseases (plant exudate), Neoplasms (root), Abortifacient agents (seed), Anti-bacterial agents (seed), Burns (seed), Cathartics (seed), Edema (seed), Infection (seed), Narcotics (seed), Anti-poisoning (seed), Skin diseases (seed), Tongue diseases (seed), Wounds and injuries (seed), Insecticides (stem), Abortifacient(Veterinary) (unspecified), Cardiotonic(Veterinary) (unspecified), Fever(Veterinary) (unspecified), Malaria(Veterinary) (unspecified), Poison(Veterinary) (unspecified), Purgative(Veterinary) (unspecified), Skin(Veterinary) (unspecified), Tachycardia*(Veterinary) (unspecified), Tumor(Veterinary) (unspecified), Emetic(Veterinary) (unspecified), Cathartic(Veterinary) (unspecified), Dropsy(Veterinary) (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Fumitory(Veterinary) (unspecified), Insecticide(Veterinary) (unspecified), Pile(Veterinary) (unspecified), Piscicide (unspecified), Rheumatism(Veterinary) (unspecified), Toothache(Veterinary) (unspecified), Heart(Veterinary) (unspecified), Alexiteric(Veterinary) (unspecified), Malaria (unspecified), Piscicide(Veterinary) (unspecified), Fatality(Veterinary) (unspecified), Antirheumatic agents (unspecified), Cathartics (unspecified), Emetics (unspecified), Laxatives (unspecified), Anti-poisoning (unspecified)
Human toxicity very strong toxic (bark), very strong toxic (whole)
Animal toxicity very strong toxic (bark), very strong toxic (whole)

Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seeds and cuttings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) 1
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Cascabela thevetia habit picture by Maksim Kaktusiankin (cc-by-sa)
Cascabela thevetia habit picture by Trap Hers (cc-by-sa)
Cascabela thevetia habit picture by Trap Hers (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Cascabela thevetia leaf picture by Jise Cruz (cc-by-sa)
Cascabela thevetia leaf picture by Adrian Tosonieri (cc-by-sa)
Cascabela thevetia leaf picture by indi e iñigo (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Cascabela thevetia flower picture by Lopez Manuel (cc-by-sa)
Cascabela thevetia flower picture by Tonho Antonio (cc-by-sa)
Cascabela thevetia flower picture by Etienne Callens (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Cascabela thevetia fruit picture by Mel Mun (cc-by-sa)
Cascabela thevetia fruit picture by Renato Samperio (cc-by-sa)
Cascabela thevetia fruit picture by David (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Cascabela thevetia world distribution map, present in American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Benin, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Barbados, Bhutan, China, Cameroon, Cook Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Ecuador, Spain, Fiji, Micronesia (Federated States of), Guinea, Guadeloupe, Equatorial Guinea, Grenada, Guatemala, French Guiana, Guam, Guyana, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Saint Lucia, Maldives, Mexico, Marshall Islands, Myanmar, Northern Mariana Islands, Mozambique, Montserrat, Martinique, Nicaragua, Niue, Nepal, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, El Salvador, Sao Tome and Principe, Suriname, Chad, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Taiwan, Province of China, United States of America, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Cascabela thevetia threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:47927-2
WFO ID wfo-0000810099
COL ID 69CZW
BDTFX ID 125469
INPN ID 454939
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Thevetia neriifolia Cascabela thevetia Cerbera peruviana Cerbera thevetia Cascabela peruviana Cerbera linearifolia Thevetia linearis Thevetia neriifolia Thevetia peruviana f. aurantiaca Thevetia peruviana Thevetia neriifolia var. hirsuta Thevetia neriifolia var. leucantha Thevetia neriifolia var. pubescens Thevetia thevetia Thevetia linearis
WorldFloraDB 2024