Family: Apocynaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Not Native, Naturalized
Native Range:
Old World (Madagascar); widely cultivated and naturalizing.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported in 1920 by Britton & Millspaugh as naturalized in thickets in the northwestern and southeastern Archipelago (New Providence, Great Inagua). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 1151-1152, with illustrations) for thickets nearly throughout the Archipelago (regions 9-8, 6-4, 2). Reports from Britton & Millspaugh also cover region 2.
Comments:
For more images, click on the Flora of the West Indies, USDA PLANTS and Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants links below.
