Allamanda cathartica L.
Synonym: Allamanda aubletii Pohl., Allamanda salicifolia
hort.
APOCYNACEAE
Local Names : മഞ്ഞകോളാമ്പി, Golden trumpet, Common allamanda.
Flowering Period : Through out the year.
Distribution : Native of Tropical America
Uses: Ornamental plant.
Exotic : Yes.
Allamanda cathartica L. is a Straggling shrub with whorled leaves.
Flowers in terminal or axillary short-peduncled cymes. Calyx obovate-acute.
Corolla yellow, funnel-shaped; throat densely villous; lobes 5, orbicular.
Stamens 5, included in the basal constricted part of corolla tube; anthers
subsessile, sagittate, mucronate. Ovary bilocular; stigma ovoid with a basal
ring like appendage.
