✅Also known as Rose Allamanda, its flowers resemble both Oleander and Allamanda flowers hence the common names.
✅It is a woody vine native to West Africa. Widely grown in the tropics for ornamental purposes
✅It is used as folk medicine in Africa to treat snakebites and as a cardiac stimulant. The plant is also used to make arrow poison.
✅The flowers are mildly fragrant and need full sun with moderate water to bloom.
✅Climbing Oleander can be found in the Empress Garden Nursery and RRBCEA.
Pic credit: Prerana Chandak
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Touch-me-not plant
✅Touch-me-not plant is a wonder-inducing plant that grows wild in the tropical world. Its scientific name is Mimosa pudica; the
