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Foliage
Flowering
Fruits
Green fruit
Ripe fruit
Seed dispersal
Distribution
Description & Remarks
Family
Additional Names
- Hebrew with Vowels:
- הַרְדּוּף הַנְּחָלִים
- English:
- Oleander
Characteristics and identification
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there is a toothed corona in the flower's centre
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- Life form (Raunkiaer):
- shrub
- Spinescence:
- absent
- Succulence:
- non-succulent
- Summer Shedding:
- perennating
- Petal or tepal color:
- pink
- Sexuality and Reproductive Morphology:
- Flowers hermaphrodite only
- Sporangia or Seed Homogeneity:
- Homogeneous seeds-fruits
- Leaf arrangement:
- alternate (one leaf per node), whorled (three or more leaves per node)
- Leaf Type:
- entire
- Leaf or leaflet margin:
- smooth
- Stipule:
- absent
- Deciduousness:
- evergreen
- Habitat:
- Humid habitats
- Drought Resistence:
- Salt Resistance:
- glycophyte
- Synanthrop:
- obligate natural
- Chorotype:
- Mediterranean
- Drought Resistence2:
Taxonomy
- Superdivision:
- Spermatophyta
- Division:
- Angiospermae
- Class:
- Dicotyledoneae
- Family:
- Apocynaceae
- Genus:
- Nerium
Nerium oleander in the Botanic Library
