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Allamanda cathartica
Native from Brazil. It is a South American relative to Desert Rose (Africa). Both from Apocynaceae family, have beautiful flowers, and used as arrow poison by local tribes (Indians). Chinese name is "黄蝉", AKA "金杯花" which comes from the English common name.
South America, tropical areas.
Spotted on Mar 21, 2011
Submitted on Mar 21, 2011
2 Comments
@Isabela, thank you so much! I use iPhone uploading these spotting, must be the app bug caused the missing contents...
Hi SuXing, I put the Wikipedia link of this beautiful flower in Reference.