Yellow oleander
ಕಾಡು ಕಣಿಗಿಲೆపచ్చ గన్నేరుമഞ്ഞരളി
Thevetia peruviana
Kew's current name: Cascabela thevetia (L.) Lippold
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 1.8 m
- wide
- 1.4 m
Apocynaceae
Also called Be-still tree, Lucky nut, Captain Cook tree
Formerly Cascabela peruviana, Cerbera linearifolia, Cerbera peruviana, Cerbera thevetia, and 2 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to S. Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.2 m to 2.4 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.2 m to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension cream, yellow; Wikipedia orange, white, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Venenillo, Chirca, Catapis
- Chinese
- 黃花夾竹桃, 黄花夹竹桃
- Chinese (China)
- 黄花夹竹桃, 红酒杯花
- Czech
- tevécie peruánská
- Indonesian
- Ginje, Polokiyo
- Sinhala
- කහ කනේරු
- Russian
- Тевеция перуанская
- Thai
- รำเพย, รำเพยพันธุ์เปรู
- Lithuanian
- Peruvinė tevecija
- Arabic
- دفلى صفراء
- Hebrew
- תבטיה הרדופית
- Portuguese
- Chapéu-de-napoleão, Acaimirim, Auaí-guaçu
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Thevetia peruviana (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.