Family: Apocynaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Tree
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Not Native, Naturalized
Native Range:
Mexico and Central America; widely cultivated and sometimes naturalizing.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported in 1920 by Britton & Millspaugh for open shrublands on Mangrove Cay in the northwestern Commonwealth. Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 1136, 1138) for shrublands, and widely cultivated and sometimes escaped in the northwestern Commonwealth (region 9).
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